Well back in the day their just wasnt people around to help, so i pretty much had to spend my time in libraries reading obscure journals about oestrogen and its effects on the body, and the effects of almost no testosterone.The technicalities of the various surgeries, what the risks were. Obtaining information from those few who went before me. Conundrum was an extremely important book to me. Almost I treated it like a guide to flesh other information around.
Nothing was like it is now, when I first transitioned passing was easy due to it being relatively unknown outside of front page newspapers. It made many things alot easier (people wernt under social inspection back then), but on the other hand i never lived any part of my life in the adult role as a man. So I grew through my 20s which i regard as my learning years, for me just because i had transitioned i couldnt at the time rightly say i was a woman (i hadnt lived it, experienced it understood it), that only came through years and decades of being me. One thing I came to understand was thinking about it and living it were 2 entirely different things.
Now dont get me wrong the things I will say often will upset modern transgender people, but i'm not PC and have nothing to do with trans people in general. Once i've done here i'll crawl back under my rock if you dont mind. Its a reflection of the times back then we used different language, and thought about things differently, and no doubt did some things differently.
Anyway its one thing to be old and transition, its entirely another to be walking around after 40 years of HRT, and surgeries, and wonder what the prognosis is. Ironically I still manage my own health care pretty much, a legacy of the old days i guess, and just was looking for someone similar or more experienced to discuss the next 20 years and potential ramifications of things like the strong oestradiols we took back then, and things like cancer risks etc.
