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Title: *Waves sheepishly*
Post by: TamTam on May 13, 2016, 01:24:47 AM
Post by: TamTam on May 13, 2016, 01:24:47 AM
Uhh... hello!
I'm 43, near Vancouver, Canada, and despite my earliest memories (and most of them since, too,) revolving around dysphoria, it took until March 23 of 2015 for me to finally figure out/admit to myself that I was transgender (M>F).
Since then, I've been slowly trying to work on healing myself from a lifetime of self-hatred, and transitioning as best as I can. I'm at about a 50-50 mix of clothing right now. (I was at 100% femme, but I've recently been working on losing weight, and none of the new femme clothes fit me now.)
I am out to family and friends. Friends have been totally supportive, which has been completely amazing. Family has been pretty unsupportive in this, which sucks.
I'm slowly working on trying to figure out makeup, but honestly it's still mostly unknown to me. I've done some laser beard removal, and am trying for more, as I desperately need it. Unfortunately, my hair is a disaster, and I'll likely require a wig to have any hope at all of passing. *Sigh*
I am fortunate to have a good doctor helping me out, and I'm actually starting to get close to a year on hormones. I do hope to have SRS, that's absolutely my goal. Me being me though, if there's an official 'proper' order in which to do things, I'm fairly sure I'm making a complete hash of it. I am having the time of my life in doing so, and loving figuring out who I really am.
At any rate, thank you for listening to me ramble, and thank you for a website such as this one. I'm sure I will learn a lot.
I'm 43, near Vancouver, Canada, and despite my earliest memories (and most of them since, too,) revolving around dysphoria, it took until March 23 of 2015 for me to finally figure out/admit to myself that I was transgender (M>F).
Since then, I've been slowly trying to work on healing myself from a lifetime of self-hatred, and transitioning as best as I can. I'm at about a 50-50 mix of clothing right now. (I was at 100% femme, but I've recently been working on losing weight, and none of the new femme clothes fit me now.)
I am out to family and friends. Friends have been totally supportive, which has been completely amazing. Family has been pretty unsupportive in this, which sucks.
I'm slowly working on trying to figure out makeup, but honestly it's still mostly unknown to me. I've done some laser beard removal, and am trying for more, as I desperately need it. Unfortunately, my hair is a disaster, and I'll likely require a wig to have any hope at all of passing. *Sigh*
I am fortunate to have a good doctor helping me out, and I'm actually starting to get close to a year on hormones. I do hope to have SRS, that's absolutely my goal. Me being me though, if there's an official 'proper' order in which to do things, I'm fairly sure I'm making a complete hash of it. I am having the time of my life in doing so, and loving figuring out who I really am.
At any rate, thank you for listening to me ramble, and thank you for a website such as this one. I'm sure I will learn a lot.
Title: Re: *Waves sheepishly*
Post by: Cindy on May 13, 2016, 02:02:24 AM
Post by: Cindy on May 13, 2016, 02:02:24 AM
Hi Tam Tam and welcome to Susan's,
Nice to have you on board.
The Canadians seem to have a good system in place for transitioning and I'm really pleased you have your friends and a medic on board. Sadly family can take some time to understand. But often over time they do come around.
Lots of the girls use wigs and feel free on how to get a good wig.
There is a lot of support here so please have a look through the posts and archives and ask away.
To help you around the site please check out the following links for general site info...
Nice to have you on board.
The Canadians seem to have a good system in place for transitioning and I'm really pleased you have your friends and a medic on board. Sadly family can take some time to understand. But often over time they do come around.
Lots of the girls use wigs and feel free on how to get a good wig.
There is a lot of support here so please have a look through the posts and archives and ask away.
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Title: Re: *Waves sheepishly*
Post by: V M on May 13, 2016, 02:27:20 AM
Post by: V M on May 13, 2016, 02:27:20 AM
Hi Tam Tam :icon_wave:
Welcome to Susan's :) Glad to have you here, join on in the fun
Hugs
V M
Welcome to Susan's :) Glad to have you here, join on in the fun
Hugs
V M
Title: Re: *Waves sheepishly*
Post by: TamTam on May 13, 2016, 05:09:43 PM
Post by: TamTam on May 13, 2016, 05:09:43 PM
Thank you for your welcomes. It means a lot to me.
Title: Re: *Waves sheepishly*
Post by: Devlyn on May 15, 2016, 03:47:11 PM
Post by: Devlyn on May 15, 2016, 03:47:11 PM
Hi Tam Tam, welcome to Susan's Place! I live near Boston. Get busy posting, you help build the site for the next person to come along. :) See you around!
Hugs, Devlyn
Hugs, Devlyn