in 2017 I... (short bullets)

[josie76]

*started HRT (feb)
*began hair professional hair removal, laser and electrolysis
*living myself except not open to work
*hurt at work(July)
*living full time in all ways(July)
*partial recovery from injury, can now standup not bent over and can sleep at night(oct)
*lost job for certain and health insurance
*still closer to happy than ever before

[Denise]

• Gave up   

How about - took a pause or hopped off the train or catching my breath?

[natalie.ashlyne]

*   Dec 1 year on hrt
*   Continuous Hair removal on face
*   First time fully out to basically everyone in my life as of now
*   Did my papers for gender marker and Name change
*   Lost weight and gain it and lost it and so on
*   Had my first kiss as a girl by a (guy)  and a (girl)
*   Got full time job and benifits where I work took 13 years 
*   I can see myself in a mirror and not look away immediately
*   Got much better with make up and faster
*   Faced all my faults dealing with them
*   Admitted to my self I am attracted to males as well
*   First time I feel real and not fake

[Sno]

• World finally imploded
• Started therapy
• came out to my therapist
• made comfortably emotionally numb
• just managed to stop harming (again)

Rowan

[bobbisue]

   .started electrolysis/lazer
   .started HRT
   .came out to children and most friends all ok
 
   .had non related surgery
   .spoke at home towns first T.D.O.R. vigil
   . developed DVT
   .off HRT
   .back on blockers E on hold for now
     .outed at work while in hospital
   .went fulltime today
   . wow

[big kim]

. quit speed weed & coke
. cut back on drinking
. hooked up with 2 guys & a girl ( not all at once)
.started riding with a really good crew (Sportster Sickness North West)
. explored parts of the UK I never been before or since I was a kid (North East, Scotland, Wales, East Anglia, Yorkshire,Derbyshire, Shropshire, the East coast)
.getting my teeth straightened

[Denise]

   ....
   .went fulltime today
   ....

Congratulations!!!  I hope your experience is/was as positive as mine.

[jill610]

- finally decided it was time
- came out to wife (may), family (August), friends (mostly sept)
- started laser on face (aug) and chest (sept)
- out to HR at work (aug)
- started hrt (aug)
- first shopping trip with wife as me (oct)
- FFS consultations (oct-dec)
- received first miss... err.. sorry (nov)
- out to manager at work (nov)
- fully appreciated the usefulness of a sports bra (nov)
- first road trip with wife as me (dec)

[JillianC]

The Good

• Started HRT (Feb)
• Started laser (Feb)
• Made new supportive friends (Feb)
• Started Presenting as Female in public (May)
• Started requesting friends call me Jillian (June)
• Started Legal Name change paperwork hearing scheduled 1/8/18 (Sept)
• Full-Time (Sept)
• Started Electrolysis Face (Oct)
• Started Electrolysis Other (Dec)
• Gendered female by several strangers (Dec)

The Bad

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

[Sarah_P]

• Attempted suicide - Jan
• Accepted the truth, began researching transition - Jan-May
• Came out to friends, started therapy - May
• Started laser, came out to family & other friends, went out dressed for the first time, made two new great lady friends - June
• Started HRT, started living part-time - July
• First all-girl shopping trip! - August
• Finished laser - Nov
• Started electrolysis, possibly other big news - Dec
• ......
• Profit!

[Colleen_definitely]

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

I know that feeling, ugh.

[Bari Jo]

Nice thread, great seeing a synopsis of everybody.  Here's mine

* Started year thinking everything was OK, thought I had beaten the trans beast got good.
* Came back with a vengeance on one business trip to Paris.
* Back to the states, try to do DIY again, and it's not working (herbal crap), hit rock bottom for GD.
* Accepted who I am, what I am, order real meds DIY.
* Decided, this is real, made doctors appt, formal diagnosis, monitored and prescribed hrt.
* Turned 47.
* Donated 70% of boy clothes.
* Came out to close family.
* Completed about 30 hrs electrolysis and a few sessions of laser.
* Met a lot of people i think of as friends on Susan's and at therapy.
* I'm happier.

Bari Jo

[bobbisue]

Congratulations!!!  I hope your experience is/was as positive as mine.

      .Thanks Denise
      .off work till Jan dropped in fully dressed ,went well
      .went shopping at local co-op all great

      bobbisue

[Denise]

...
The Bad

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

In my opinion, next to relationships, this is the hardest/cruelest aspect of MtF transition.  For me it was a simple change in hair style that helped me to see Denise in the mirror. All I did was move the part in my hair 1 inch too the side.



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[Steph Eigen]

• [8/2016 Crisis level dysphoria, joined Susan's, started therapy]

• Huge catharsis in therapy, figured out the problem, embraced what I am

• Therapy progressed, dysphoria coming under control

• Resumed meditation practice, dysphoria further controlled

• 1/2017 purged feminine effects

• 2/2017 regrets...

• 3/2017--onward: status quo, no better, no worse

Sounds pretty grim as I write this summary.

Steph

[kk]

• Did a whole lot of research on gender identity and found myself, finally
• Quit making up excuses after 4 years of avoiding being trans
• Recognized my mental illness and worked through it
• Became engaged to my gf, and came out to her as trans
• Chose my new name, even though I have yet to change it legally
• Recently went to a Universalist church for the first time, and introduced myself with my male name!
  
• I've come so far in terms of being and feeling masculine, and accepting myself as a man.  Finally feel like I'm getting on with my life.

[Anne Blake]

- Hair transplant March
- GCS September
- Name change December
- Have become totally comfortable being me

[Rachel]

Lost 24 pounds
Hair transplants in March and September
BA
VFS
Passport in my name and gender
Divorced in June
Belly Button pierced
Clitoral hood

[Kc1058]

*Finally accepted what I've been trying to deny for A. Very. Long. Time. (Dec)
*First Dr appointment (Dec)


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[jessica95]

• grew comfortable with myself (April)
• went full time (March)
• legal name change (October)
• learned to like myself (grew slowly all year)
• Breast Augmentation (Halloween)[\li]
  
  • see female in the mirror (December)
  • unfortunately: Divorced (December)
  How about you?
  

I started to be more mature and realize life is more than drinking and partying and being popular.(I am not popular).
  I was in different group of friends. 
Done different things , lived different places .
And being open about being a very feminine transgender/transexual lesbian women. 2017 was a special year , where i had more progress than previous years and was in many different situations.[/list]