I'm in the same boat, I'm finally taking my first steps to transitioning and I got an appointment with the endo for the 27th of August. I hope they don't pull the same ->-bleeped-<- they did on you, but I live in BC, Canada and the person doing the hormone readiness assessment referred me to them, so I'm hoping it all goes well.
With any luck we should be starting T at roughly the same time, it's kinda cool.