Hi Girls!
It's been quite a while, but as goes the saying, "no news is good news"! [emoji6]
So I've been quietly meandering my brand new life as Sarah. No big physical breakthroughs since my last post... My SRS and BA are still planned for March 2019. Still busy with electrolysis, now not only facial but also "down there". My hair keeps growing and it's now not noticeable anymore that I had once a quite severe balding... After 19 months HRT, fat redistribution is now evident, especially at the hips and thighs, notwithstanding a slightly lower body weight. Breasts are also objectively larger (3 cm increase in my chest circumference at the nipple level, along the last 6 months) and have a definitely feminine contour - they are certainly not "moobs" anymore...
My level of confidence has been improving even more. So much that last July, for the first time in my life, I gained the courage to wear a swimsuit and go to the beach, here close to home, in Netherlands. It was... liberating! It felt so right, so good. I never dreamed that I'd reach this milestone so early in my transition. Nobody paid attention to me... I felt perfectly stealth. It was wonderful! [emoji2956] Of course, this was in open-minded Netherlands... How well would it go in a more conservative place? [emoji848]
Well, I decided to find out and planned the first part of my summer vacations in a much more conservative region of Europe: very Catholic southern Italy, Puglia to be more precise! And not even the more touristy part of it, at that! We went every single day at the beach and guess what... nothing happened. Nope. I was not insulted. I was not stoned to death. I was looked at insistently only once by a man, but I have reasons to suspect that it was because I was in company of another woman (my wife) and we wear identical wedding rings... I had arrived to the beach alone a little earlier and that guy didn't pay attention to me, but as soon as my wife and kids joined me, he began staring... So I think that he had a problem with us as a lesbian couple with kids, not specifically with me. Which also sucks, albeit in a different kind of way... [emoji2955]
So it was, all in all, a very positive experience. So positive that we decided to spend the last week of Augustus in Malta, which, in sharp contrast with Italy, has the reputation of being the most LGBT-friendly country in Europe. Again, no problems there, even at the beach...
These positive beach experiences were very reassuring and boosted my confidence more than all the therapy sessions that I've gone through!
When we came back from Malta, I had a big surprise awaiting for me in the mailbox... My first name and gender had been officially corrected and the Civil Registry sent me a certified copy of my new birth certificate... "Sarah"... "Female"... I even started crying in the alley as I read the letter while walking from the mailbox to inside home. There was I, officially reborn, as the woman I always felt I was. [emoji175] A couple of days afterwards, I went to my country's consulate to have a new ID card and passport done. I should receive them in 1 or 2 weeks... So happy!
That's all for now... I'll leave with a couple of recent pics.
Love you all! [emoji173]
Sarah
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