Hello everyone,
I am no stranger to the Susan's Place for Transgender forum. I have been lurking in these forums and reading materials and posts since before I even transitioned. I figured because this site helped me so much, I should sign up for an account and introduce myself.
My name is Giselle and I'm a 26 years old pre-op transexual woman. I wish I could post a pic for everyone but my brain apparently isn't smart enough to figure that out. Haha. ???
I have been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for 1 year and 1 month. I been living full time for 1 year and have my SRS schedule with Dr. Bowers for November 2015 (such a long waiting period :( but I guess Dr. Bowers is a very busy lady!)
As far as my story goes, I came from a very conservative Asian family. My dad was an army commander back in Myanmar and the only female in our family was my mom (until I transitioned). I was always afraid of my parents and always been confused with my identity. I went through depression in high school and college. I never knew or even heard of the term transgender or transsexual so I always thought I was gay. I accepted myself as being homosexual one year in college but it didn't feel right. I was so confused with my identity that it affected my life in many negative way. I was unhappy, unapproachable, non-social, awkward, depressed, and lonely.
In 2012, I decided to move to Seattle from Minneapolis to live by myself and run away from all the uncertainties I was having at home. This was when I discovered the terminalogy of ->-bleeped-<- and discovered myself. Even so, I was scared of disobeying the social norms that our society sets. I was afraid of rejections. However, in 2013, I moved back to Minneapolis as a different individual. The indivdual I was afraid to show. The individual I had always been. I transitioned and didn't care about what people thought. I decided that I only live once and no one was going to tell me how to live it. People pushed back of course, but I didn't care.
Now, both parents accept me for who I am, I have a large group of supportive friends, I been promoted in my profession twice and never been happier than before. Of course, I have some rainy days here and there but my quality of life has been 100 times better than it used to be. Anyway, I'm soooo sorry about the long introduction. I want to thank everyone who shared their stories and advices on these forum because it helps a lot. It may not seem so but I think there are a lot of people like me who never comment, post or sign up but do lurks these forum and reading materials and hearing people's stories help a lot. I just wanted to return the favor. Thank you!
Giselle.
Giselle
Welcome to Susan's family
Glad to see you have made progress on your path. Yes seems all the top surgeons are booked solid for many,many months out. I think Jessica another of the GM here hers is December 2015?
We either have hoops to jump our time to wait. But trust me it is all worth the effort and wait.
In the meantime pull up a chair and give a look over the following links for the site info...(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherv.net%2Fcm%2Femoticons%2Fobject%2Fchair-3-smiley-emoticon-emoji.png&hash=f6de189a088518c5de131e0c9ce29661e7a52a55) (http://www.sherv.net/)
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Safe passage on your path, popcorn?
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Izzy
Giselle,
Welcome to the participatory version of Susan's, I lurked for about a year too. Dr. Bowers comes highly recommended and San Francisco is my idea of a town for recovery. Yes, she is booked out fourteen months now, that you got in for a November 2015 date is about right. There are quite a few of us here in the Emerald city. If you get back this way again and would like to get together for coffee one day, I'm always ready to meet another t-girl.
You get to post your picture at 15 posts. Check out "Post Ranks (including when you can upload an avatar)" link from mrs izzy.
That you have taken control of your life and are well along the path of authenticity is wonderful. I look forward to getting to know you, this community has been pretty good to me and many others.
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
Julie
Quote from: mrs izzy on September 02, 2014, 02:42:49 PM
Giselle
Welcome to Susan's family
Glad to see you have made progress on your path. Yes seems all the top surgeons are booked solid for many,many months out. I think Jessica another of the GM here hers is December 2015?
We either have hoops to jump our time to wait. But trust me it is all worth the effort and wait.
In the meantime pull up a chair and give a look over the following links for the site info...(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherv.net%2Fcm%2Femoticons%2Fobject%2Fchair-3-smiley-emoticon-emoji.png&hash=f6de189a088518c5de131e0c9ce29661e7a52a55) (http://www.sherv.net/)
- Site Terms of Service and rules to live by (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,2.0.html)
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- Post Ranks (including when you can upload an avatar) (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,114.0.html.)
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Safe passage on your path, popcorn?
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Izzy
Thank you :)
Giselle
It is great to meet you and to hear how well life is now going for you. The low level of trans* awareness has caused a lot of stress to many of us over the years. Glad that this is changing along with improved tolerance, acceptance and support.
Safe travels
Aisla
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. :)