I'm fairly new and have just started my transition, but I'll answer a few of these.

Does the mtf community have a stereo type like the mtf one (we are all just homophobic lesbians in denial or the ftm one: we are living on the male stereo type) and if so what is it?
I think the main I heard is people doing it for purely sexual reasons, i.e. gay men in denial. But I never take stereotypes seriously, in any context in life, so I never thought of it much. To be honest, most of the MTF I've heard/read about online are perfectly normal people.

What is you sexual (and romantic) orientation and how did it relate to your gender?
I am definetly bi sexual, the more I accept myself and start my transition, the more I find I am much more of a heterosexual girl (I guess that would make me gay in male terms) and always have been. But I have found women to be attractive but just had hard time connecting emotionally, but I've heard that some cisgender women have these feelings too.

How do you handle transphobia?
There are so many phobias people have in the world, I don't see how transphobia is any different to prejudices against race, sexuality, nationality or religion. They should all be handled the same way when faced with, complete dismissal and possibly (if the person is close to you) education to rehabilitate their views.

If you saw a trans person getting beaten up what would you do?
Call the police and immediately render assistance, as I would do for any person in this situation. Trans or not.

How old are you and how old where you when you came out to people?
I'm 24 and starting my transition now, I am planning to come out to parents and close family in a few months, just waiting to move out and set myself up.

Who did you come out to and how did they react?
I came out to my ex-gf of a few years, like 2 years ago, it didn't go very well. Good and bad came from it, obviously our relationship quickly fell apart since she couldn't accept me as a girl and it set me back transition wise about 2 years after I struggled with the idea of rejection from other people. But the good that came of it was that I finally accepted myself and I could move on, I also eventually realised that there is no reason I would face the same rejection from people who love me anyway, and I was just being paranoid.

Just how light can you make your voice?
Still got a lot of practice ahead of me to master it for daily use, but if I really focus I can get it to the right tone and pitch.

Did you always know? if not when did you?
I have poor memory of my childhood, my earliest memory are when I was a teenager and then very vague too. I suffered through serious depression in my high school years and no one knew why, I couldn't put my finger on it but I was different, I wasn't interested in relationships or any of the normal out going stuff and I was extremely paranoid and socially anxious.

I had fleeting thoughts of womanhood, but I always quickly shot them down the social and religious dogma I was raised with made me want to reform my thinking, but they only got stronger. I went into a relationship with a girl finally when I was 18 because I thought it was expected of me, and for a while just having someone close helped a lot, I would confide in her little bits of my inner psyche that no one knew (my bi sexual feelings, my feminine mannerisms and views that I tried to hide) but eventually it all surface and I couldn't escape the reality. So I finally accepted I needed to do something at 22, and now I am.


How where your mood and feelings before hrt?
Apart from my serious depressive episode during my teenage years, after that I was alright for the most part (I just went into denial mode and survived, I was average but certainly not happy), I was way more emotional and sensitive than your average male. My family and gf at the time constantly commented on that, even when I was younger, I could be brought to tears easily. I tried so hard to convince myself my life was normal and I should be happy, but I was only merely OK for a while. There was a few periods of depression and substance abuse throughout those years, but focusing on my studies and future helped centre me to get through them.

And this one is really important: when did your 'wrong' puberty start and how did you take it? (how would a person that know before puberty take it?)
I had a late puberty (my memory is not the best but I think it was about 15) and thankfully I never really developed much as a male, I was relatively hairless, low on muscle mass, tall and very thin. I always was told I had "baby face" and even that I "looked like a girl" when I had long hair. So I didn't take it that badly, it could of been far worse and I could of turned out much more manly.