well I spent 3 months trying to get to one, and now that I finally did, she's gone AWOL on me, and isn't returning phone calls or emails, and stood me up for the last appointment, and haven't heard from her since, so I'm back to the drawing board.

thanks for the welcome. I'm pretty knowledgeable, but not a know it all. been over on
crossdressers.com and someone referred me over to this site, so I thought I'd check it out and see what's shaking. After a lifetime struggle of denying being transgender, I was fiinally told by my depression counselor that I would need to see a gender identity therapist. I was relieved to hear the words from someone else. I struggled to come to terms with how to tell the parents and friends, and it drove me nuts for a bit, but I finally did. At first the family was supportive, then a few months later, they flip flopped and resorted to biblical condemnation, so communication is minimal, usually limited to text or email, but the condemnation stuff has stopped thankfully.
friends are great, they are all supportive and still talking to me. my lack of a love life sucks, but it's not like I've ever really had a consistent love life to begin with, so old news there lol.
i'm college locally, studying Communications, about to graduate in a year. and I'm a photographer locally. but since this board is completely public, I won't be sharing my pics of me or my work, because I'm not 100% out, even though I am in transition full time, there's just people I'd rather not have or find things, because those people will just try and use them against me.