Just like the thread title says, I am interested in seeing how long people are giving HRT to work it's magic before taking the plunge and going full time.

I started HRT on 5 June 2011 and went full time on 16 September 2011. My plan had been to wait until January 2012 but I just couldn't take it any longer started after only about 3 months on HRT.

I am on HRT for almost 6 months...not been out even partial time yet, but I am struggling to do it soon.

I'll go to a party this next saturday and I pretend to go as myself. Wish me luck girls!

I believe that as time passes and you are on HRT, each new day becomes harder to be lived as a boy...at least this is what I feel...a extreme urge to start going out asd a woman even if you cannot pass very well....

But I know that I must be reasonable and this wouldn't work too well right now.

Quote from: Natalia on March 25, 2014, 03:55:37 PM
I am on HRT for almost 6 months...not been out even partial time yet, but I am struggling to do it soon.

I'll go to a party this next saturday and I pretend to go as myself. Wish me luck girls!

I believe that as time passes and you are on HRT, each new day becomes harder to be lived as a boy...at least this is what I feel...a extreme urge to start going out asd a woman even if you cannot pass very well....

But I know that I must be reasonable and this wouldn't work too well right now.

Good luck at the party!

About three months here. I dressed for one simple little Therapy visit and could not change back when I got home that night. I went full time immediately and it was so liberating. I have had a great time since.

Four months; at three months on HRT it was becoming clear that I couldn't hide things much longer, so I came out to my boss. The next month was spent negotiating with HR and getting everything planned out.

I was full-time except at work at around the two-month mark, though. (I didn't really do it on purpose so much as notice that now I was never actually going outside in guy mode after a while, so I'm not exactly sure when that happened.)

Good question don't really know how to answer it. It kinda just happened I can say I started having a harder and harder time passing as a male around the 11th month but I would guess it was somewhere in between the 9-12 month. I just started dressing fully as a woman and didn't make no announcement I was doing so. But mentally I would say about the 11th month.

Wow, brave girls...

I'll be at 17 months before I go full time.   Between work requirements and a wife and just fear, I have waited.   Six weeks to go!

Jen

I was FT 24/7 about 2 years before HRT or anything. HRT isn't magic. It won't change your looks, voice, hair, mannerisms, and desires overnight. You either do or do not. Yes, there have been a few amazing transformations which have been powered by HRT... but those are few and far between. Trust me. A whole bunch of other stuff is way more important than HRT. The E is a small stepping stone along the path at most.

Quote from: JennX on March 25, 2014, 08:42:56 PM
I was FT 24/7 about 2 years before HRT or anything. HRT isn't magic. It won't change your looks, voice, hair, mannerisms, and desires overnight. You either do or do not. Yes, there have been a few amazing transformations which have been powered by HRT... but those are few and far between. Trust me. A whole bunch of other stuff is way more important than HRT. The E is a small stepping stone along the path at most.

I have to dissagree in someway...

sure hrt wont change your voice , mannerism , hair etc...
but even if you do all these and look like a guy , you are a guy in everyones eyes and pretty much end of story...
thats why I believe that hrt and ffs are the most important aspects of transition,,,because personally I know some cis girls who act more manly than you can imagine...nobody is gonna call them guys , cause they look female , thus at least in society eyes they are female , regardless of the mannerisms...

I dont know if its right or wrong , but in todays society , image is everything...
:/

I'm at 14.5 months, and unofficially went full-time about a week ago.

Feelings of inadequacy kept me held up in limbo land for a long time. As did the fears associated with potentially transitioning on the job in front of people who came to know me as a guy. (What finally triggered the switch was basically getting fired, and realizing that I couldn't put myself through that again.)

It technically won't be official until I get the thumbs-up from my therapist in a couple of days, but yeah, I definitely took the long way around.

Quote from: FalsePrincess on March 25, 2014, 08:48:27 PM
I have to dissagree in someway...

sure hrt wont change your voice , mannerism , hair etc...
but even if you do all these and look like a guy , you are a guy in everyones eyes and pretty much end of story...
thats why I believe that hrt and ffs are the most important aspects of transition,,,because personally I know some cis girls who act more manly than you can imagine...nobody is gonna call them guys , cause they look female , thus at least in society eyes they are female , regardless of the mannerisms...

I dont know if its right or wrong , but in todays society , image is everything...
:/

I agree that image and presentation is everything... But disagree that HRT and FFS will work wonders. I've met plenty of drop-dead gorgeous postop MTFs that from looks alone due to tons of surgery look flawless... But as soon as they open their mouth or sit down in a chair, still are seen by the world at large as something other than a cis-female. It takes work. Trust me.

I've landed jobs at both a Fortune 500 and 100 companies post transitioning... So I'm familiar with the concept of presentation and image. When a corporation flies you across the country for an interview in front of a panel of people in suits that sit there and analyze your every thought and gesture, yeah you become aware of image and presentation... fast... especially when you're trans. I've also not had any FFS whatsoever. Not saying that I won't get any in the future either... But it is vastly overrated IMHO compared to things like voice, hair, makeup, clothes, walk, mannerisms, and body language. Looks are looks... But there are some things that no amount of surgery will change. Just saying.

Also FFS at best smooths over some rough edges... It won't make you look like Angelina Jolie nor the confidence to face life everyday either.

Quote from: Carrie Liz on March 25, 2014, 09:56:22 PM
I'm at 14.5 months, and unofficially went full-time about a week ago.

Feelings of inadequacy kept me held up in limbo land for a long time. As did the fears associated with potentially transitioning on the job in front of people who came to know me as a guy. (What finally triggered the switch was basically getting fired, and realizing that I couldn't put myself through that again.)

It technically won't be official until I get the thumbs-up from my therapist in a couple of days, but yeah, I definitely took the long way around.

What do you mean thumbs up from your therapist? Nobody else can say your full time but you girl. Carrie it seems like you keep waiting on something or somebody else to verify your full time when it's obvious you already are. You don't need your therapist to tell you that you are full time you tell your therapist you are full time.

I've been on a full strength transitioning dose of HRT since Oct 8 of 2012.

My work is complicating my coming out because I am smack dab in the middle of a high visibility, huge, high risk project where I might have to travel internationally to provide on site customer support; because of that coming out right now is a really bad idea. I plan to tell them sometime around the first of July if things slack off a little by then. That's within the 6-12 month option that I picked.

I did after I was on HRT for 18 months.

About a month. I was ready and I didn't give a damn about what people thought about me. I didn't have any issues from other people and it meant RLE was started straight away.

Beginning to realize I may never make it.

When I started transitioning I thought it would take a year or so. After the 3 month mark, I was failing as male, but sometimes failing as female. I thought, well, I might as well go all female since I feel more comfortable present female now and it seems that it makes things go a little faster. (Plus practice makes perfect.) I can't believe tonight I was buying tops for business casual at Lane Bryant for a business conference next week we are exhibiting at in Orlando, when I only went full time a little less than 2 weeks ago. I'm registered with my female name and ironically one of the big topics this year at this conference is Women Cargo/Transportation.

Quote from: TiffanyT on March 26, 2014, 01:41:57 AM
Beginning to realize I may never make it.

Yes you will Sis, just one step at a time. I'm here whenever you want a hand, a hug or anything.

Full time was a little over two years, but they had been about 60% time from day 2.  I had a window to complete a 40 year career that I needed, even though during the last year, I could have transitioned on the job too, but it would have complicated things and maybe delayed my retirement.  As retirement day drew near though, I received a jury summons that ended up putting me off another two months, the hormones did however keep me relatively sane to get to my drop off day.  I knew who I was though thanks to the E.