Yep, I wouldn't find it all that uncommon. I started dressing as female about 3 months ago and still no hormones. I got really impatient. Even though it hadn't been long after I started, I had to fly home (and to get by TSA, dress male so my ID would match) and when I got home, I was forbidden to wear female clothes by my mother, fortunately I planned ahead for that (although thinking it would be dad, not mom) and brought half male clothes, half female clothes. It was exceptionally horrible being dragged to church by my family, already feeling uncomfortable in a Catholic church, a religion I had rejected almost 7 years prior, but also in the clothing my mother had me wear, white long sleeve dress shirt that was too wide, tucked into pants that were too wide around the waist, with a belt that the buckle felt uncomfortable, shoes that were a size too big and far too wide on me, and a tie that practically choked me to death. My plea to allow my mother to wear the dress I had brought home so we would both be mutually uncomfortable (her with me dressing female, me with me being in church) was shot down on the grounds that her comfort came first and since I'm still Catholic (I never left the church and never can in her eyes because I was baptised at a very young age, something I think a child should decide for themselves if they want done, but in my family it's tradition to do within 3 months after the baby is born) I'm not uncomfortable in a church.
Interestingly, I'm still somewhat uncomfortable, even wearing female clothes, but it's more of a fear that someone will notice me and say something mean about it or assault me or whatever.
Turns out just about everyone I talk to keys into it, which I see as good and bad. Bad, because I just want to be a normal girl, not a guy in a dress, which I'm afraid that's what some people probably think, good because if they had an issue about it they'd tell me that there was something wrong about it or whatever.
Turns out that older people (I tend to underestimate age, so I'll say over 60) tend to automatically recognise me as female, and I end up having nice conversations with them. I'm not sure if it's fading eyesight or just the fact that that generation tends to have a strict binary view of gender and if someone dresses female, they must be female, and don't recognise the modern "standards of beauty." I also happen to be better speaking to people who I've just met, especially older people.
