It may never have happened to any of you before but: Have you ever asked peeps the same question again even though you know the answer? It's just to seek approval and reassurance, innit?
Whilst I agree that some things in life are rarely pretty, it's important to be aware of them. It's better to be prepared than taken by surprise. I wish I'd known then what I know now. My case is very personal & a bit off topic. I'm not saying that it'll happen to you since everybody's experience is unique but I think it's worth mentioning.
I was so naive. I thought I had the world at my feet because I was starting mones at 24, not an old age when you think about it. I thought the mones were going to make me into a beauty queen. Foolish me, the mones did nothing. 3 years into cross-sex hormones therapy & I'd only been transformed into a feminised male & as a feminised male I couldn't live socially as a woman. I was devastated. Thought my transition was over.
FFS did marvelous things for me, allowed me to live a normal life, transformed me from barely passable to female without question. I've learnt that a person can have the most feminine body in the whole world but if she looks like a feminised man & not like a woman, it's impossible to make the social transition. Peeps hardly look at your body, they look at your face, listen to your voice, study your mannerisms & draw their conclusions from that. A hard lesson learnt but it's never too late to keep learning.
