Hi Steph.
I am a trial lawyer. You can't get much more "alpha" than that. So far I've been wearing slimmer cut men's suits, brighter shirts and ties, and using a fedora to hide my rapidly growing hair. Even so, some folks seem to be noticing a little the changes in my face. Sooner or later, there will have to be an announcement to and through the court system, and I am going to have to take that first walk into the courthouse dressed female. But since my insurer requires that I be on HRT for six months before starting facial hair removal (that they will pay for, which is why I am waiting), and there is no way I am going to present female in court with any beard shadow on me, that event is still in the future.
I would not have wanted to do things Caitlyn Jenner style, and believe me I have thought about it. Take three or four months off, start HRT, beard clearance, then go get FFS and body contouring, and then return to work as a girl. My problem with that is, if I walk into a courtroom not looking like the face on my driver's license and the name on my bar card, the clerk will ask the bailiff to escort me out.
So I will have to do most of this hiding in plain sight, then around the time of FFS, start the legal work on the ID changes, and when the paper comes back, make the big announcement. That way I don't have a court clerk saying, "Where is Mr. M___ and who are you?"
But there is no way for me to hide. There are more than a thousand people in the court system that know my name and my face. So I have to do this in front of everybody.