Wow!
Thank you so much for posting that link!
That guide, in combination with her other articles that she links, provides quite extensive information and advice, some of which I have never seen despite having been researching this subject off and on for quite a long time.
It's funny how you can have a sort of epiphany when somebody else puts plain information in a slightly different way.
I've always wanted to transition just so I can have the body I want. I never really cared about being seen as female, referred to by a female name or female pronouns. I never even cared if people knew that I was transitioning, or needed to dress or act in a certain way to advertise anything to the world. I actually do care a lot what other people think, but I was just fine with them seeing me and treating me as a male. Yet I unconsciously was feeling pressured to go for the whole package because that's the standard of the transgender transition. Dress and makeup and coming up with a new name and insisting that everyone refer to you with the female pronouns Etc. While I realize these may be important to others, they were never important to me and I just assumed a had to have them as part of the whole package. I only just realized it was some sort of unconscious pressure I was feeling to go the extra step. But now I feel much more confident in going forward with my transition, because for me the transition will be strictly physical and that's all I want, with little or no attempt to change socialization or perception. I guess I could be like a tomboy. How come I never thought of this before?
