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• grew comfortable with myself (April)
• went full time (March)
• legal name change (October)
• learned to like myself (grew slowly all year)
• Breast Augmentation (Halloween)[\li]
  
  • see female in the mirror (December)
  • unfortunately: Divorced (December)
  How about you?

• got sober
• finally accepted myself and my need to transition
• started coming out to some select friends
• started seeing a therapist
• started HRT!
• started electrolysis

* came out to extended family and friends
* came out to my children
* came out on facebook
* came out on linkedin
* went full-time
* started HRT
* turned 40

...gosh! X

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• Started HRT (Jan)
• Started electrolysis (Jan)
• Went full-time (Apr)
• Legal name change (Jul)
• First public speaking as myself (Jul)
• Began process to get approved for GRS (Nov)

• Discovered Myself
• Told my wife
• umm, yep, that's it

*found Susans
*came out to my wife Jan
*kicked out house Jan
*moved into flat Feb
*Came out at work Feb
*Stopped wearing boy gear Feb
*First time out in a skirt July
*Full time November
*HRT approved Dec

• Met my Girlfriend
• Had my SRS in Thailand
• Tights & Underwear shopping!

Quote from: Faith on December 08, 2017, 03:03:24 PM

• Discovered Myself

No small feat  :D

• Started HRT (Jan)
• Came out to a bunch of people
• Came out at work (June)
• Started living full time (June)
• Turned 45 (June)
• Told my parents (August)
• Started facial hair removal (December)

Enough for one year.

• Jan/Feb: Hit rock bottom, hard
• Finally got help in February
• Convinced myself that this was actually possible
• Hair removal (nearly done now)
• HRT
• Voice training
• Out to friends and family in July (I can still smell one bridge burning)
• Part time in late August
• FFS consult in August
• Learned to not run my chest into things any more  :o
• Name change in September
• Out at work and completely full time 27 October (ironically my first full time day at work was Halloween)
• Checking with more FFS docs and running out the clock for GRS now

What a year.

• Gave up   :(

• Started HRT (Feb)
• Met Laurie (Jun)
  
• Orchiectomy (Sep)
• Met Kendra (Oct)
  
• Changed gender on identity documents (Nov)

Wait until you see what I do next year!  :)

Hugs, Devlyn

• Started hrt (June)
• Went homeless (July-September)
• Went back to living with my parents
• Still on hrt despite being back in the closet
• Got a job finally (October)
• Came out successfully at job

• Got my driver's license at 35
• Lost 40+ lbs (about 80 total, the rest was in 2016!)
• Discovered a love for Panera's Orange Scones that threatens the weight loss
• Completed a good 50+ credit hours towards my degree
• Oh, and did the whole came to grips with being transgender thing and am about to start HRT as soon as my shipment arrives in a few days and came out to family and all that stuff. You know, a typical year.
• Ate more orange scones

* went out as myself for the first time
* made 1 year at my job
* moved out of my parents house
* stopped cutting my hair/started hair removal
* started hrt
* came out to a few of my friends


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• Lost 20 lbs
• Started electrolysis
• Started dressing androgynously at work to prepare for coming out there
• Stated dressing as myself at home and for errands 90% of the time
• Came out to a very select few friends
• Celebrated 3 years of sobriety
• Realized that my emotionally and financially abusive wife leaving me in 2016 was the best thing that could have happened to me (I know, I was a little slow on the up-take with that one)
• Rediscovered a love of cooking and baking that I thought was long dead

- Started hair removal (Jan)
- Came out to wife (Feb)
- Started estradiol (Mar)
- Started spironolactone (July)
- Came out to manager and one co-worker (Oct)
- Started seeing a therapist (Nov)
- Donated most of my male clothing to a shelter (Nov)
- Increase spiro dosage (Nov)
- Scheduled trachea shave for early Jan (Dec)
- Lost 30 pounds

-  Jan-June, survived fear that something would stop surgery from happening.
-  June, had GCS surgery with Dr. McGinn. Yea! Lost 90% of body dysphoria.
-  Met Rachel and Laurie, received amazing support from 'Susan's' friends.
-  Summer Recovered.
-  September, back to work with new coworkers.
-  August, had surgery to remove fat under eye caused by FFS surgery in 2016.
-  November, had surgery to repair deviated septum with some tweeks for appearance.  Had post op freakout. Ok now.
-  December, started serious research for BA. Living life, happy being a woman.
Moni

* Came to terms with the fact that I am transgender (March)
* Came out to family and close friends (April/May)
* Had weight loss surgery (July)
* Came out on FB and went full time (October)
* Down 60 pounds from my high weight (December)
* Got my first prescription for T (December)

Quote from: EmilyRyan on December 08, 2017, 09:02:58 PM

• Started hrt (June)
• Went homeless (July-September)
• Went back to living with my parents
• Still on hrt despite being back in the closet
• Got a job finally (October)
• Came out successfully at job

You have come a long way Emily. Still a ways to go. I hope it all comes together for you. Just in the time I have been here I can finally find some positives in your comments. Don't give up. Build on what you have accomplished.

Quote from: JoanneB on December 08, 2017, 08:26:33 PM

• Gave up   :(

:(

I waver but not giving up .. please don't give up on yourself

*started HRT (feb)
*began hair professional hair removal, laser and electrolysis
*living myself except not open to work
*hurt at work(July)
*living full time in all ways(July)
*partial recovery from injury, can now standup not bent over and can sleep at night(oct)
*lost job for certain and health insurance
*still closer to happy than ever before

Quote from: JoanneB on December 08, 2017, 08:26:33 PM

• Gave up   :(

How about - took a pause or hopped off the train or catching my breath?

*   Dec 1 year on hrt
*   Continuous Hair removal on face
*   First time fully out to basically everyone in my life as of now
*   Did my papers for gender marker and Name change
*   Lost weight and gain it and lost it and so on
*   Had my first kiss as a girl by a (guy)  and a (girl)
*   Got full time job and benifits where I work took 13 years 
*   I can see myself in a mirror and not look away immediately
*   Got much better with make up and faster
*   Faced all my faults dealing with them
*   Admitted to my self I am attracted to males as well
*   First time I feel real and not fake

• World finally imploded
• Started therapy
• came out to my therapist
• made comfortably emotionally numb
• just managed to stop harming (again)

Rowan

   .started electrolysis/lazer
   .started HRT
   .came out to children and most friends all ok
 
   .had non related surgery
   .spoke at home towns first T.D.O.R. vigil
   . developed DVT
   .off HRT
   .back on blockers E on hold for now
     .outed at work while in hospital
   .went fulltime today
   . wow

. quit speed weed & coke
. cut back on drinking
. hooked up with 2 guys & a girl ( not all at once)
.started riding with a really good crew (Sportster Sickness North West)
. explored parts of the UK I never been before or since I was a kid (North East, Scotland, Wales, East Anglia, Yorkshire,Derbyshire, Shropshire, the East coast)
.getting my teeth straightened

Quote from: bobbisue on December 09, 2017, 04:15:25 PM
   ....
   .went fulltime today
   ....

Congratulations!!!  I hope your experience is/was as positive as mine.

- finally decided it was time
- came out to wife (may), family (August), friends (mostly sept)
- started laser on face (aug) and chest (sept)
- out to HR at work (aug)
- started hrt (aug)
- first shopping trip with wife as me (oct)
- FFS consultations (oct-dec)
- received first miss... err.. sorry (nov)
- out to manager at work (nov)
- fully appreciated the usefulness of a sports bra (nov)
- first road trip with wife as me (dec)

The Good

• Started HRT (Feb)
• Started laser (Feb)
• Made new supportive friends (Feb)
• Started Presenting as Female in public (May)
• Started requesting friends call me Jillian (June)
• Started Legal Name change paperwork hearing scheduled 1/8/18 (Sept)
• Full-Time (Sept)
• Started Electrolysis Face (Oct)
• Started Electrolysis Other (Dec)
• Gendered female by several strangers (Dec)

The Bad

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

• Attempted suicide - Jan
• Accepted the truth, began researching transition - Jan-May
• Came out to friends, started therapy - May
• Started laser, came out to family & other friends, went out dressed for the first time, made two new great lady friends - June
• Started HRT, started living part-time - July
• First all-girl shopping trip! - August
• Finished laser - Nov
• Started electrolysis, possibly other big news - Dec
• ......
• Profit!

Quote from: JillianC on December 11, 2017, 08:02:09 AM

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

I know that feeling, ugh.

Nice thread, great seeing a synopsis of everybody.  Here's mine

* Started year thinking everything was OK, thought I had beaten the trans beast got good.
* Came back with a vengeance on one business trip to Paris.
* Back to the states, try to do DIY again, and it's not working (herbal crap), hit rock bottom for GD.
* Accepted who I am, what I am, order real meds DIY.
* Decided, this is real, made doctors appt, formal diagnosis, monitored and prescribed hrt.
* Turned 47.
* Donated 70% of boy clothes.
* Came out to close family.
* Completed about 30 hrs electrolysis and a few sessions of laser.
* Met a lot of people i think of as friends on Susan's and at therapy.
* I'm happier.

Bari Jo

Quote from: Denise on December 10, 2017, 10:20:44 PM
Congratulations!!!  I hope your experience is/was as positive as mine.

      .Thanks Denise
      .off work till Jan dropped in fully dressed ,went well
      .went shopping at local co-op all great

      bobbisue :)

Quote from: JillianC on December 11, 2017, 08:02:09 AM
...
The Bad

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

In my opinion, next to relationships, this is the hardest/cruelest aspect of MtF transition.  For me it was a simple change in hair style that helped me to see Denise in the mirror. All I did was move the part in my hair 1 inch too the side.



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• [8/2016 Crisis level dysphoria, joined Susan's, started therapy]

• Huge catharsis in therapy, figured out the problem, embraced what I am

• Therapy progressed, dysphoria coming under control

• Resumed meditation practice, dysphoria further controlled

• 1/2017 purged feminine effects

• 2/2017 regrets...

• 3/2017--onward: status quo, no better, no worse

Sounds pretty grim as I write this summary.

Steph

• Did a whole lot of research on gender identity and found myself, finally
• Quit making up excuses after 4 years of avoiding being trans
• Recognized my mental illness and worked through it
• Became engaged to my gf, and came out to her as trans
• Chose my new name, even though I have yet to change it legally
• Recently went to a Universalist church for the first time, and introduced myself with my male name!
  
• I've come so far in terms of being and feeling masculine, and accepting myself as a man.  Finally feel like I'm getting on with my life.

- Hair transplant March
- GCS September
- Name change December
- Have become totally comfortable being me

Lost 24 pounds
Hair transplants in March and September
BA
VFS
Passport in my name and gender
Divorced in June
Belly Button pierced
Clitoral hood

*Finally accepted what I've been trying to deny for A. Very. Long. Time. (Dec)
*First Dr appointment (Dec)


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Quote from: Denise on December 08, 2017, 12:45:58 PM

• grew comfortable with myself (April)
• went full time (March)
• legal name change (October)
• learned to like myself (grew slowly all year)
• Breast Augmentation (Halloween)[\li]
  
  • see female in the mirror (December)
  • unfortunately: Divorced (December)
  How about you?
  

I started to be more mature and realize life is more than drinking and partying and being popular.(I am not popular).
  I was in different group of friends. 
Done different things , lived different places .
And being open about being a very feminine transgender/transexual lesbian women. 2017 was a special year , where i had more progress than previous years and was in many different situations.[/list]

(2011) chose my femme name
(2016)
Jan - started HRT, out at work, told GF, attended my 2nd to last orgy with a shenis
Mar - (re)joined Susan's after 17 years hiatus
May - contacted Dr Satterwhite
Sept - tried stopping estrogen for a month, resumed and added progesterone
Oct - phone consultations with Drs Satterwhite and Wittenberg, began scheduling for April 2017
Nov - contacted Oates & Slama
Dec - consultation with Oates, firm date with Heidi Wittenberg, sexuality back on track and improving

2017
Jan - last orgy with shenis, made final decision to proceed with GCS
Mar - a month of details in prep
Apr 25 - collect prescriptions, fly to SFO
Apr 26 - GCS, 2.5 hours give Heidi handmade goblet in thanks for beautiful work
May 3 - first gyn appointment (surgeon)
May 18 - fly home
Jun 1 - first day back blowing glass
Jun - rock climbing
Jul 23,24 - first time back on bicycle, first receptive PIV sex with GF
Aug - first swim post-op
Oct - first gyn appointment
Nov - granulation tissue finally gone
Dec - have kept off the 15 lbs lost post op and continuing to lose some weight

Maybe I should wait for the end of year but here's what's coming up for the rest of the month.

We have a sex date with my GF's fwb, I fully expect to have my first penetrative sex with a male partner this Sunday! I'm feeling excited about this, it's casual and as I don't especially want an emotional connection with a guy I feel this is a pretty good way to "lose my virginity" as it were. This should also be my first opportunity for receiving cunnilingus as soon far my GF hasn't been interested in giving that. No other big plans for the winding down 2017 but I'm totally psyched for 2018 :-).

Quote from: Kc1058 on December 14, 2017, 10:26:20 AM
* Finally accepted what I've been trying to deny for A. Very. Long. Time. (Dec)
* First Dr appointment (Dec)

Well done!  I hope your appointment was a positive experience.