Hi all!
I'm Zoe, a 33-y.o. MTF just outside of sunny Denver. Been reading this site for a couple years now and finally decided to register for an account and start posting since I actually have something to say.
Call it the sheer bliss of coming out to the unflagging support of my (mom's and stepdad's sides) of the family and all of my friends, maybe the passage of winter into spring, but I suddenly find myself very chatty and ready to take on the world.
Been on HRT now since September, three days before my 33rd birthday, on a day, month, and year all divisible by the number 3 (as is my biological birthday). I kind of like that number.
As part of the coming out process, I've decided to start being totally and lovingly honest with myself and in my relations with others. Since going full time at the end of February, I've only become more and more confident, to the point that I realized my applications to Ph.D. programs back in November were the last bursts of the old boy self who did everything to make everybody else happy at the expense of me. There are shorter and more rewarding paths to becoming a licensed counselor than a Ph.D., I'm not a fan of the scientist-practitioner model that views every living thing as a product of biology and environment (I'm very spiritual, but not religious), and six years around a strictly scientific worldview would be such a waste when I'd immediately graduate and start training in Jungian therapies that recognize the essential and eternal self in all. I don't need a Ph.D. to wave around as much as I don't need a massive truck to prove my flagging manhood.
Wow, that was a strange sentence...
And I'd better stop this post now before it becomes a tome like everything else I write. If I ever met the Dude, I'd call him El Duderino, because brevity sure isn't my thing...
In any case, looking forward to getting to know you all and contributing in myriad ways!
