I love my life.

[Jay-Bird]

This is such a great thread I truly love it

Life now is nothing short of amazing, I smile every day and am truly happy.
Something totally unfamiliar to me before transition.
Finally I'm free to express myself in ways that always felt natural but had to hide away for so many years.

I love my body and my mind now matches.

From dark angry boy to happy full of life girl

Jay-Bird

[Riley Skye]

Even though I've been a tad impatient with my transition the past 6+ weeks i have to say I'm so happy to finally be on the right path. For me everything is going well, starting to get myself up with school and hopefully will do well this semester, my boss is supportive of my transition and I am so confident and excited for the upcoming triathlon season this summer. 2013 is my year, the year of Julie!

[Dovahkiin]

The other day I passed, and got called 'son' by the person serving behind the counter at the chemist.
Made my day.

[DeeperThanSwords]

I wore my new binder today (the one I won in a poetry competition), and let Himself see me in it. He responded surprisingly well, he said I still look good to him (though, to be fair, I wasn't presenting in any other way). It's a start though.

[Dovahkiin]

I came out to a friend today and his response was just.. I couldn't have asked for a better one. He's absolutely amazing. I feel so lucky to have him as a friend.

[Shelley Jo]

I have only to add that unless you 100% completely love yourself then you can never ever truly love.

[FrancisAnn]

What a nice site.

I'm doing great, finally back on HRT, it feels great. Love to dress nice, do my nails, anything & everything normal & feminie. I've met lots of great girl friends all over the planet thru Susan's Place. Some are close to SRS, I'm so happy for them.

Plastic surgery for my face maybe, appointment next week, 99% sure I'll go ahead, time for a face lift. I'll look great after it all heals. I may have more for my face to become as feminine as possible.

RLE 90% of the time, most friends are OK, some family does not know, maybe later I'll talk with them.

Have fun girl friends.

One more thing, my nipples are becoming far more sensitive, Yea! It will be great to grow some nice girls. My mother was well endowed & I'm also hopeful for nice normal breasts. I love my life, also. 

[Natkat]

Awsome thread,

I wanna post even when its might not be 100% happy happy,

I would say being transgender have lead me suffering,
it have been a challenge and still is, everytime I have to deal with transphobia of any kinds, whatever its the goverment, people on the street, the net, relatives.
I dont expect it to be easy, But I do feel im more true and happy than I could be if I just hid myself in the closet, and slept my life away.

what dosent kills you makes you stronger, and I think my experience have gained me some coints, I see people who often seams very interesteed in me or impresive because of what I have done in my young age or can relate to which people often belive I should be older to understand.

I wish not to forget those experience so I can use them in my life, and so far im very happy on how it turn out and how far I got.
im looking forward to the summer alot, im neither cis or rich, but being trans have learned me to value small parts of life who makes its good, and I think in a way it also makes me a more gratefull person than what I would have been.

[aleon515]

i'm probably the happiest i've ever been in my life.  right now, right here.

Actually me too. I am older and never knew I could actually do this. I am happy to be who I really am. I am not having a lot of trouble, but more the usual things of trying to transition and so on. T has given me a feeling of well-being which is wonderful. Also have more of a social life than I have ever had sort of built in with a wonderful trans community here.

--Jay

[fatty]

My life is FAR better since I started transition. Being a man is  garbage.

I always wanted a sensual world and now i live in one. Women only can live in a sensual world. Men can only partake in it not dwell always in it.

Sooooo happy!!!!!!!

I've noticed Transwomen who promote the doom and gloom were better off being men. I can never really judge for sure but to me it seems a lot of us are simply kidding ourselves. Then they all blame their problems on transgender predjudice.

I'd say if it works, do it(my G-d do it!!!!!!) if it doesn't, find some other way to be happy.











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[Tiffanie]

I so need to read this entire thread ... I love it 

I do love my life!  I love my wife and my son.  Fear of losing them made me miserable, but I finally decided to be true to myself ... and they accept and support me.  I am so blessed to take this journey with my wife and sone by my side.

I never believed I would start hormone therapy so quickly, but I am now on day three.  I felt happier since coming out to my immediate family (and a few others) ... I am hoping hrt will escalate these feelings.

[Clockpunk]

My transition has been nothing short of just awesome! Well, my take-off. I've been slowly taking steps to becoming full time and now I have one more step before I can say I'm full time! (Minus the hormones and technical stuff).

Bathrooms!!

That aside; my friends, my work, my family, their all beside me on this decision! I've only had to let go of one person, and it was his choice to leave! I have nothing against that and would welcome him back into my life with open arms! I've been doing nothing but keeping myself as positive as I can, and so far it's working out fantastically! I've come clean with everyone I know, and I'm not scared to keep going! My egoconfidence has sky rocketed and I find myself smiling a lot for absolutely no reason!

I just recently met up with an old friend of mine and we've been dating for a few weeks now. She calls me her boyfriend all the time (Including openly tagging me on her Facebook status') and when I hear it my heart just flies!

So far, with the exemption of the bathrooms, I have reached and accomplished EVERY goal in the first phase of my transition! Soon therapy among other things, but I feel pretty darn good about myself and my life right now!

I so need to read this entire thread ... I love it 

I'm right with you on that one! All these stories are so uplifting and inspiring!

[Crow]

My brother is the coolest ever. He has reaffirmed his awesomeness by listing me as his brother on Facebook. I dunno how long ago he did this-- I barely use Facebook-- but I was browsing the brother-creature's Facebook, today, and discovered that he is the first of my family members to admit on the interwebs that I'm a dude.

[alexclusive]

THANK YOU. Finally someone who agrees.

I love my life. I really do. I'm grateful that I have supporting family members, friends, peers, coaches, etc and I'm grateful that I've had the experience to go through this. I'm so lucky for all of the support. I see this as a blessing as well and not a curse. I have no regrets on coming out and transitioning in my early teens. I don't regret starting testosterone at all. My life is becoming hell of a lot easier. But I don't mean to brag. I know that some people have it worse than me. And I know it sucks. I know there are so many trans people out there who can't find the acceptance from the people around them. I know that there are people who would rather die than be who they are. Its depressing to see it everywhere and I wish I could help them. I wish I could. I wish they had it easy like I have my entire life. I wish they could walk around everyday and not be phased by anyone's meaningless little ->-bleeped-<-. I wish they could walk around and be a man, a woman, a man and a woman, neither a man or a woman, whatever the hell they wanna be and nobody will question them otherwise. This world sucks.

[warlockmaker]

I'm so glad to hear this as this is exactly how I feel and I was feeling guilty when compared to the amount of misery that so many of our sisters face. I have expressed this in my forum topics - I'm the positive one ... thank you and other who have replied. Yeah....

[big kim]

I live across the road from the Irish sea,I'm no longer dependant on alcohol,tobacco,speed and weed. I can enjoy a drink and don't carry on until I'm drunk,one is plenty.I have a great job as a landlady/barmaid/hotel manager every day is different.I'm reasonably attractive and don't look my age(55),I've lost 56 pounds over the last 2 years,I have my own long blonde hair(OK the colour's out of a bottle).I have loads more confidence as a woman than as a man.I'm 19 years post op and my electrolysis was finished a long time ago.

[Tristan]

I have to admit I love my life too. I love being a daddy's girl and the fact that my family loves me so much and looks after my best interest. I love the fact that I'm a nurse and I get to travel so much. I'm still a little fuzzy on my childhood but most of my memories from like high school on have truly been a blessing. I feel so lucky that so many people made the right choices for me and helped make me into the person I am

[MrJ]

I love my life. I'm 3 years into transition, 2 years 4 months on hormones. I am out about being trans, share it with new people in my life when it's applicable, or before we become friends on facebook because I talk about trans stuff there. I have been at university for 4 years and am in the 3rd year of a double major in Music and Theatre. The classmates who watched me transition are accepting. Everyone I've told at school is accepting. Last year I was in a theatre production that was put on for all incoming first year students and we had to write a monologue about our experiences at school. I wrote mine about transitioning while at school. The response from thousands of students was amazing. I still get stopped in the hallway by random people for them to say "Hey I saw you in that play, your story was awesome."

Being in transition for this long, I am loving myself more and more every day. I am getting more comfortable with my body. I am more confident as a person. I don't endlessly worry about social interactions, and I don't feel as lonely. I truly feel like I am becoming who I was really meant to be. And the more I see that man emerge, the more excited I get.

Life is pretty good. I wish I could tell early-transition me not to worry so much.

[Emmaline]

I love my life.  I start HRT soon and have 100% support of wife, family, coworkers and friends.
With my energy coming back, I can engage life and create all the things I have been dreaming of.

I finally understand the source of the anxiety and distress I have been in my entire life and the means to be free from it is in sight.

Not a single person in my life has not accepted me for what I am.  If anything it has made my friendships stronger. 

This is gonna rock...

[anjaq]

Hey thats so true - we often get hung up about the negative events just because they are what bugs us the most and forget to mention the rest.
So I am happy in many ways now and during transition. I have lived the majority of my life after childhood in the right gender. I was lucky and transitioned at 23, which was pretty young in the 1990ies. Hormones worked great for me - I dropped the male acting and got hormones and within months I was more and more frequently gendered correctly even without having to put too much effort into extra- gendered clothing. I am 5"8 which is perfectly average for women in my country, I had pretty much female body hair, wide hips and a face that is passable (well we all think it could be better ). I got my letters for SRS very soon after I started and despite the hardship I had with it it was THE best thing ever. I felt sooo good right after it and up to this day 13 years later I feel my body on many occasions in the way it is now and it always reminds me to appreciate that I have been given the gift of making it to the other side. Transition was fun on many occasions - I felt like a teenage girl and acted like it at times, luckily that was still ok for my age as with HRT I looked like a teenager as well. I was away from my parents for the first time and lived with nice people and we went out to clubs and danced and had fun, more than I ever thought I would have before transition. Going on a holiday vacation for the first time in transition was great - summertime and beaches and all of that with the allowance to do as all girls do in such situations. After I was settling down, I had a bit of a lag, I admit, some down time but I did study a topic I liked a lot, had lots of fun with it and managed to get a scientific degree and a PhD and the best thing about that is that I did it as me, not while pretending something else. I also became open and talkative at times and when I never liked people or speaking in publich pre transition I now am comfortable with both, actually enjoying it quite often. Life is so much better on the other side