What makes you decide to go forward...

[Bellaon7]

more importantly, what will it take to make you turn back?

[Muddy]

For me, the decision to transition came when I realized there was no other option any longer.

For me, it was transition or die.  I couldn't live any longer with the thought of never being externally, as I am internally.

What would it take to make me turn back?
Perhaps the loss of my custodial rights to my son. 
Barring that?  Nothing.

[Janet_Girl]

The first of last year my ex and I split up and sold everything.  I was on my own again, so why not finally do what I knew I need to do many years ago.

To go back?  You would have to kill me first, and then I would haunt you as a woman.


Janet

[MeghanAndrews]

I have a saying I use a lot:

You will transition when the pain of your daily existence is greater than the fear of not transitioning.

I guess the counter point would be that you will detransition when the daily pain of your transitioned existence is greater than the memories of life before transition/perception of what detransition will be like.

It's something to wrestle with. Detransition really shouldn't happen but it's better than ending up dead.

[Ms.Behavin]

GO bacK???  sorry I don't have a reverse.  There is nothing that would make me go back to the old life.  It is that much better now....Period

Beni

[myles]

I decided to go forward when I decided I wanted to live my life. It just got to be too much to hide all the time. There is no way I would ever go back, I would rather die than return to that misery.
Myles

[juliekins]

Going "back" isn't quite and option now. Gender change is more of a circular sort of thing once you are post-op. I'd have to go the FTM route!

No, thanks! I'm completely happy being the woman that I always was, like a jewel that needed just a little polishing

[V M]

Other than my own agenda? It would be the supportive people that have something positive to say. I love those people

But so often there are people who just want to argue. It doesn't matter what kind of positive I try to put into a subject, they have something negative to contribute in return. Often they throw in some senseless stuff that just bores me. I can't tell them that I think they are boring morons with a negative attitude, I would get in trouble for that.

So I navigate away from that and look for the more positive folks

We all have our ups and downs. Let's help each other up the mtn. Not knock each other down

[thestory]

God may have to come down from the heavens and strike me down first. Losing people isn't a big enough fear. Besides all the people who are accepting of me transitioning are some of the best people I've ever met. Could be thought of as a personality filter. Fancy that.