How did you find yourself on the slippery slope?

[Christine_Hart]

I'd read about the supposed slippery slope where, even when people thought they'd never go any further, they ended up heading all the way towards transition. Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation? Not necessarily as far as transition, but certainly a lot further down the road than they thought they'd ever go. It doesn't seem that long ago that I never thought I'd consider HRT, then it moved onto well maybe, you can never rule anything out, and now it's like I'm really thinking seriously about it.

Christine

[Jessica]

Hi Christine 🙋‍♀️ I myself had vowed to go only so far in the beginning.  I wanted to at least try hrt to feel its effects.  There were several wtf moments in the beginning that had me thinking this must be as far as I need to go.  After stopping briefly each time, I was compelled to continue, giving me a new point to reach for. 
I never thought I would go past 1 month, then 3 months.  Now I'm at 8 months and have no desires to stop and I now have thoughts that encourage me to actually get GRS.

Smiling, Jessica

[KathyLauren]

I always knew that if I jumped off the edge, I'd go all the way to the bottom.  Waiting lists are like a drogue chute keeping me from breaking any bones along the way, but basically, I'm riding this tobogan as fast and as far as it will go!

[Jamina]

Hi Christine, think I recognise you from the Angels?

Anyway... I don't think there is such a thing as the 'slippery slope'. I think it just takes time to learn to accept oneself and grow out of the internalised transphobia that girls our age tended to get lumped with. Once you work through all of that- which can be a lifetime's work in itself...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

[Kylo]

Well I had to go on HRT - there are some things that can't be imitated or learned like the voice (for a man).

Guess it just depends on how thorough a person feels they have to be. I didn't want to be stuck in a gender limbo, dealing with people confused by what they saw. That was going to continue to happen if I didn't take testosterone. Then I decided I wanted rid of the chest because it's bloody awful having to bind, and the thought of binding for life didn't appeal. Then all that was left was whether or not to go the whole hog. Being more than halfway through it makes sense to.

[Quinn]

For me I knew that I loved the dream I had been living in my head for years of fully transitioning or just the different fantasies when things got difficult for me in my life I would just be able to live in my mind and do my daily routine by habit while actually playing out these female scenarios in my mind.
  I decided hey I will just try out a really low dose of HRT. Once I was on the first dose I decided to double it, then decided to double it again
Then all of a sudden I bought all women clothes most of it is somewhat androgynous with a small hint of fem
Then I decided to go ahead with facial hair removal
Then I decided what the hell gathered all the male clothes up in hefty bags called the ARC and had them pick them all up for donation
Last week purchased my first bras because I noticed when I walked to fast my chest was not liking it all, it was a new experience, chest seems to be growing a bit faster now
Just purchased Womens eyeglasses when they get here out goes the male glasses
At that point I will not have any male articles of clothing left and I'm still not out full time yet


It seems to me that once you start, things just start to go into place a little at a time depending how comfortable you and are what goals are. For me I decided now,i just to go with the flow and how I feel not because someone else has done it faster or different what is right for them is not probably right me or you. When I started this

Take is slow and everything will happen when your ready

[Donna]

Oh my yes. At Christmas I poured my heart out in a letter to my wife. I explained me and my thoughts and at that time hair makeup and dresses where so far off I admitted I couldn't go there.
Here we are three months later and I'm fully out and presenting as female even wearing a dress
( which I love). I felt on Monday I was good now. Tuesday I found out my approval for injections to nueter the testes came thru, now I need that too. Bugs me the doc is on holidays and I have to wait until the end of the month for it.
Maybe it will settle sometime. 😆

[krobinson103]

There was never any slope. It was jump from an airplane. I have known what I need to do for 30 years. I knew if I started there was no going back. I tried to wait in support of the family but I got to the point where living became almost intolerable so I had to start even though the timing wasn't exactly great.

[Denise]

I'd read about the supposed slippery slope where, even when people thought they'd never go any further, they ended up heading all the way towards transition. Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation? Not necessarily as far as transition, but certainly a lot further down the road than they thought they'd ever go. It doesn't seem that long ago that I never thought I'd consider HRT, then it moved onto well maybe, you can never rule anything out, and now it's like I'm really thinking seriously about it.

Christine

Slippery slope maybe.  I think if it more like the Coyote running off a cliff.  Hang there just long enough to hold to a sign that reads "help!"

That was October 2015.  I'm probably getting SRS this fall.  The one thing I can say is, I'm much happier.

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