Thanks 🙂 That's encouraging. Well, that 'perfect time' never did come along really, but I'm not really in too bad a situation right now as regards my general security and stability goes (whether in my finances or my general life situation and relationships with friends and family) or at least it's as good as it's going to get, I think, so... I really need to get over the fear aspect and keep moving along.
Another thing I have been doing is seeing about hair solutions that might work for me, as I suffer a lot of baldness. That's also put me off a little in the past, I think, but I think you need to get on and make the best of things. Yes, it would have been better to do it in my 20s, but I didn't, so there's no point beating myself up about that. Also, I feel a bit more confident that I can still pass OK after I spent two days in a female mode on holiday with friends recently, and a cis lesbian friend said I passed well and came across as feminine and classy 🙂 And I thought, well if she thought that, and I've not taken any hormones or anything, well, I guess there's hope for me. The thing that bothered me most was if people could see my beard hair - I have never found anything that covers it in a way that satisfies me, but I was out in a city during the day, and I didn't feel like people were especially looking at me, so I guess it was probably not as bad as I thought (and obviously that aspect can be sorted out with laser and hormones etc).
Harley, when you said "What I found is that life got less stressful "finding the right time"", did you mean you also waited to try to find a time in your life when things were generally a bit less stressful, or that things got less stressful once you got on with your transition?
