What do YOU say when someone asks if you're trans?

[sneakersjay]

K8, I just saw your ticker...I'm having an OMG moment, and I don't do that so often...well, no, it's more of a Dr. Horrible moment.

Seriously...a hammer...to mark the days till SRS? Was that just a happy accident, or do you have a severely wicked sense of humor?

I think she's got a great sense of humor!  I love her ticker!


Jay

[Krissy_Australia]

Kate
How can you get that when you have been on HRT less than a year

[K8]

or do you have a severely wicked sense of humor?

Well, I've never heard it described quite that way, but ... 

How can you get that when you have been on HRT less than a year

I started HRT April 2.  I started RLE April 21.  My surgery is scheduled for April 30 - one year and 9 days after starting RLE.

Yes, I feel truly blessed.  But part of my haste is my age.  I want to enjoy as many years as possible as the real me.  And thanks to many of you, I am discovering just who she is.

- Kate

[Krissy_Australia]

Good planning Kate
My therapist wont give me a referal till after my ffs

[Janet_Girl]

Hummph Kate. SRS already. Well now. 

_{Congratulation anyway.}
Janet

[K8]

Thanks, Janet.

You'll get there, honey.  Hopefully long before you get to be an old crone like me.

*hugs*
Kate

[heatherrose]

My therapist wont give me a referal till after my ffs

How does your therapist justify this extra stipulation?
Is FFS something that you have indicated to them that you
feel you need to be able to comfortably assimilate into society.

[Krissy_Australia]

I have mentioned to him my concerns about my current appearance and how Ill feel more comfortable after surgery. Hes just doing his job to make sure I feel comfortable after the surgery before committing to something that is for all intents and purposes is ireversable

[The None Blonde]

Hummph Kate. SRS already. Well now. 

_{Congratulation anyway.}
Janet

Well it is a year.... perfectly legit.

Good for you Kate, I'm still waiting, been full time a few years now, vivé la pauvreté

[heatherrose]

Janet wasn't questioning the legitimacy of Kate's surgery.
She only let the green monster run for a bit.
'cause she knows what living in poverty feels like also.

[CharleneT]

. . .
I started HRT April 2.  I started RLE April 21.  My surgery is scheduled for April 30 - one year and 9 days after starting RLE.

Yes, I feel truly blessed.  But part of my haste is my age.  I want to enjoy as many years as possible as the real me.  And thanks to many of you, I am discovering just who she is.

- Kate

I am also of a grand age and so feel the same about urgency.  My problem is $$ unfortunately.  I still hope to figure that out and get scheduled for early 2011.  I am going full time this up coming Jan 2 (HRT started 100 days ago, today).  Since I am likely to go to Thailand for GRS, if the finances worked out, I could do the surgery in late 2010 ( my preference by far ).

Kate, just for the record, you are one of my hero's

Charlene

[FairyGirl]

My surgery is scheduled for April 30 - one year and 9 days after starting RLE.

mine is planned 15 months 2 weeks 2 days after starting HRT/RLE. I would have done it those few months earlier but I will be out of the country from next week until just a few weeks before the surgery. Also I picked Summer Solstice for my date because I'm such a pagan lol

[K8]

I picked Summer Solstice for my date because I'm such a pagan lol

It never occurred to me to pick a date.  Maybe in the next life that I'm TS.

I am also of a grand age and so feel the same about urgency.  My problem is $$ unfortunately.  I still hope to figure that out and get scheduled for early 2011.  I am going full time this up coming Jan 2 (HRT started 100 days ago, today).  Since I am likely to go to Thailand for GRS, if the finances worked out, I could do the surgery in late 2010 ( my preference by far ).
Kate, just for the record, you are one of my hero's

Charlene

Thanks, sweetie.  I know that I am very fortunate to have the funds to get SRS.  Many don't.  But to me, it seems like icing on the cake.  The cake – the substance – is being able to live as yourself. 

(I don't know how I will feel about this after the surgery.  I've only been right about half the time so far, so I could well be wrong here, too. )

This is a difficult road, but I don't think that the destination is surgery or stealth (if that is what you want) but being complete and being you.  That is a gift that not many – cis or trans – get in their lifetimes.  I hope you and all of us can get there.  If you need surgery to get there, then I hope you can get the surgery, but it's a means not an end.  Or it might just be the dessert, when it is the sustenance of the meal that feeds you.

- Kate

PS: Wow, did this thread get hijacked!  Sorry.

[FairyGirl]

It never occurred to me to pick a date.  Maybe in the next life that I'm TS.

Dr. McGinn only does this surgery on Monday, and I chose June because of being out of the country and to give myself enough time when I return to get the last little medical checkups and such done. I could have had any Monday in June, but it just so happened that Solstice came on one of them, so I thought it was fitting for a fairy to be complete on Midsummer's Eve.

me too sorry for the thread drift...