Uhh... hello!
I'm 43, near Vancouver, Canada, and despite my earliest memories (and most of them since, too,) revolving around dysphoria, it took until March 23 of 2015 for me to finally figure out/admit to myself that I was transgender (M>F).
Since then, I've been slowly trying to work on healing myself from a lifetime of self-hatred, and transitioning as best as I can. I'm at about a 50-50 mix of clothing right now. (I was at 100% femme, but I've recently been working on losing weight, and none of the new femme clothes fit me now.)
I am out to family and friends. Friends have been totally supportive, which has been completely amazing. Family has been pretty unsupportive in this, which sucks.
I'm slowly working on trying to figure out makeup, but honestly it's still mostly unknown to me. I've done some laser beard removal, and am trying for more, as I desperately need it. Unfortunately, my hair is a disaster, and I'll likely require a wig to have any hope at all of passing. *Sigh*
I am fortunate to have a good doctor helping me out, and I'm actually starting to get close to a year on hormones. I do hope to have SRS, that's absolutely my goal. Me being me though, if there's an official 'proper' order in which to do things, I'm fairly sure I'm making a complete hash of it. I am having the time of my life in doing so, and loving figuring out who I really am.
At any rate, thank you for listening to me ramble, and thank you for a website such as this one. I'm sure I will learn a lot.
