Hey Everyone :-)
I'm Carmen, 25 years of age and currently in preoperative state. I live in Toronto Canada and have a great boyfriend as well whose very supportive of my transition.
About My Gender Identity - At the age of 7 I had known that there was something very off about myself. I assumed that I was simply gay because of my attraction to boys. As life progressed, I found at the age of 19 that there still wasn't something quite right about myself. Having seen some documentaries and a bit of research I had found that I was clearly TG. That was a major changing point in my life as I wasn't sure what to do. Starting to transition isn't an easy thing at least not for me. I was lost and had no clue of who to talk to or how to go about things.
I eventually figured out a rough plan of what I wanted to do and so I had contacted clinics about HRT. I found a transman who had told me about a trans friendly clinic here that would help me out with this aspect of my transition and I got in touch with them. It took me about a year before I could obtain any meds because they needed to do a psychiatric evaluation to be sure that I had the gender dysphoric symptoms. Over the course of my 5 yrs in transition I have done countless hours of electrolysis which is still not done because I can't seem to find someone whose going to do it without screwing me over. I did some brief voice work training and took it from there and came out at my job last May.
The most difficult aspect of transition I think is to be open at your job. At least for me anyways, I find that the ignorances of others really comes out when your showing your TRUE self. But in the end I am confident enough to still go to my job as me and to face the BS head first.
Hopefully in 2013/2014 I will be undergoing the final aspect of transition which will include ' gender reassignment surgery '.
Sometimes I ask myself, would I do it again ?. I think I would because this is a pretty incredible opportunity to be able to do something so brave as to come out and transition and to be confident ect.
Anyways, I hope to make new friends here :-)
~ Carmen ~
Welcome to the site, Carmen.
From your posts you seem like a very bubbly, outgoing, fun-loving kinda girl. :)
Come on in and make yourself at home, it's great to meet you. *hug*
Thanks very much !. I try to be as unique and outgoing and fun to be around as possible !. Big hugs :)
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Hi Carmen, it's nice to meet you! I live near Boston. This site draws people in from everywhere. See you around, hugs, Devlyn
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hi Carmen,
A warm Aussie welcome to Susans to you!
Hugs,
Kelly
Hi Carmen,
Sounds as if you have life on the go, Hugs from another Aussie
Cindy
Hey Carmen, welcome!
So proud of you for being so brave! I'm glad you're here. :D
Nice to meet you all and thanks :-) !!