I've ripped this great idea off from a thread started by Dandy Ducker over in the F2M board, this one is for us gals... 

What were your accomplishments this last 12 months? What lies ahead?

For me...

2014
First public excursion in girl mode (well, the first in over 20 years)
Started coming out to friends (in some cases, re-coming out)
Came out to colleagues, friends and family
Went full time late March
Completely expanded my wardrobe and shoe collection (yippee!!)
Changed my name on my birth certificate and soon to change all documentation (I'm a bit slow on this one!)

2015
C cup?? ??!??
Finish beard electro
GRS (I hope!!)

Quote from: Hanazono on November 23, 2014, 03:15:39 AM
1. survived another year of sleeping 3 hours a night.

!!!

2014
1) started hormones (mmm sweet sweet hormones)
2) started telling my family

2015
1) get around to changing my name and all the documents. (I always say I'll start this next week)
2) finish telling all my family
3) get through a blood test without fainting
4) BE HAPPIER BEING ME

Cool thread idea. I'm only starting this journey so don't really have clear goals yet but here it goes

2014
1) Bought a car
2) Finally stopped ignoring my GID
3) Started seeing a gender therapist

2015
1) Continue therapy
2) Present as female in public for the first time
3) HRT
4) Finish university

2014

1) Came to terms with being transgender.
2) Started working with gender therapist.
3) Joined Susan's Place.
4) Started with endo.
5) started HRT.
6) Dressed as my self for first time in public.

2015

1) legally change name and all documents.
2) Come out to sons.
3) Go full time.
4) Work on voice

I made a long list somewhere else, but along the lines of what I'd achieved after one year of HRT. Here are the highlights from this year.

2014

Finally admitted to my SO that I am a woman
Lost a considerable amount of weight
For right or wrong reasons attended a TG support group
Met some delightful MtF ladies. We all chatted for hours about our experiences
Tried make up on for the first time
Lasered my face to rid it of hairs
Purposefully plucked my eyebrows into a feminine shape
Became more self-accepting of my developing female face
Finally shaved off the pit hair after years of procrastination
Started using a handbag whilst out and about
Wore only womens clothes out of the house
Had men display random acts of chivalry towards me
Went womens clothes shopping with my SO and having a great time doing so

2015

Start the process of my formal name change and updating various pieces of documentation
Go full time
Come out to my employer
Come out to parents, siblings and selected extended family members
Continue to work on my voice
Continue to work on my make up skills
Continue to expand my wardrobe
Make new friends that accept me for who I am and not what they expect me to be

Great thread!

2014

Continued therapy with a new therapist.
Started group.
Joined a LBGT gym and have a trainer I am out to.
Started Progesterone.
Started IM ( have (had) a needle and fainting thing so that was a big deal).
started to dress more fem at group.
Came out to Occupational health, Gym owner and trainer, sister, brother and brother-in-law, work psychologist, outed to daughter.
Walked in a Pride march for work.
Did a Pride at work membership drive in an atrium at work  (my pride picture is on a 2014 Hospital LGBT rating report).
Gave permission to my boss to inform my work president my gender.
Helping a girl in group.

2015

I want a 10 day IM cycle.
I want to dress more fem, perhaps full time.
Light makeup
nail salon visit
work on letters or requirements for operations.
B cup
weight down and lean muscle up
Hair removal on face
Fix hair on head
Maybe a chemical peal
Help a girl in group

2014

Got my HRT all sorted.
Got my electro started.
Got my voice not 100% horrible, prob just about passable.
Starting to look cute!

2015

Come out to more people
Get a better haircut than simple long hair.
Start part -> Full time
Get FFS
Perfect voice or get voice surgery
Be awesome.

2014
accomplishments
No real accomplishments besides surgery to remove an implant that was jepardizing my health

Failures
Seem to have pist off one of the only true friend I had with my negative attitude

2015
Ba done sometime over the summer
Keep searching for a lawyer to go after these ->-bleeped-<-s
Schedule srs

2014

I came to grips with my gender identity/ realized a transition was a need not a want.
moved out on my own so I could start my transition
Started therapy
Going to start seeing endo in December!!!

2015
start laser hair removal
come out to family
come out at work
go full time.
*start a cooperative house for trans people
*get a spiral perm
*get more tattoos and piercings

The stars are lower priority, besides for the cooperative house that is very important, but I would be surprised if I could start that up in a year.

so far this year has been the most important year in my life but next year seems like it is even more important.

2014
1) Survived
2) Started to really learn what it is like to be a for real person
3) Started to allow myself to be really in touch with the real me
4) Came to realize and actually admit that I NEED to at the very least do a transition to part-time as soon as life allows it.
     a) Started the process of loosing the shame I harbored over being trans
5) After 6 years of taking on the trans beast actually asked for an HRT letter
     a) Started the process of making this whole "I am trans" so very very real to me
     b) Learned that fretting over how long that letter was taking to process said a lot to me
6) Came out to my new doctor
7) Learned that growing as a person also means you need to believe the old rules or ways of doing things also grow and change with you.
     a) Asked for and surprisingly received permission from my wife to essentially direct her health care

2015
1) Survive
2) Finally finish up and rent Housezilla. (Which also served as a convenient excuse for putting off major life decisions)
3) See the end of my wife's constant chronic pain followed by the restoration of her emotional health as the drug fueled anxiety and depression cycles wane and she gets some semblance of a life worth living back.
4) The long shot, get to move away from this toxic "Village" we live in to some place a few minutes away from my job where I gain over 2 hours of my life back AND get to go back to feeling completely genuine as a person, at least on a part-time basis

That's the short version of my life on hold as other pressures take top priority. Truth be told, unlearning 50 years of bad habits and applying new ways to think and feel about yourself is almost a full time job, on top of a full time job, on top of being the homemaker, on top of being the primary care giver to a broken spouse. All those other pressures are great excuses to slip back into the old familiar ways of running (or ruining?) your life. Thankfully, these days I don't have to be anywhere near as diligent about slipping back into the old ways as I was a year or so ago.

2014:

*SRS
*Joined a church where I'm accepted and where diversity is celebrated
* Completed my first full year teaching as my genuine self.
* Began dating
* Began educating cisgender people about us and our issues.
* Helped our legislature pass a trans anti-discrimination law.

2015:

* Find someone to share my life with.
* Use some of my time and energy to reach out to others
* Make some close friends - friends who want to know what's going on in each other's lives.
* Expand my efforts to educate people about trans issues.
* See my daughter off to a successful college experience

As others have said, GREAT THREAD!!!! Thank you Ms. Grace for starting.

2014



• Changed Jobs/Careers for the better
• Went back to gender counseling with a new therapist, going extremely well
• Had my eyebrows waxed for the 1st time into a very feminine arch shape and thinner lines
• my wife has known for years that I am trans but that I was fighting against it, and as long as I was fighting she was good, well I had a broken down coming out moment my wife that I am no longer fighting my trans and this is who I am, I am Jenni
• Been out in public several times lately into crowded malls and what-not as myself and have been comfortable

2015



• Continue with counseling and ask for & get my referral letter to start HRT
• Start HRT
• Start Electrolysis
• Come out to my extend family - 3 older brothers and 3 older sisters from my moms prior marriage (step or 1/2 siblings) and their families
• Find a part-time job that I can present as my true gender
• Have my sinus nose issues cleared up for good
• Lose weight from 165'ish to 150 goal
• Make some close friends that accept me for who I am

Great thread... 

2014:

0. Being able to manage my anger and frustrations better.
1. Quit smoking in December 2013, almost one year smoke free.
2. Lost 40 pounds for surgery.
3. Turned vegetarian.
4. Alcohol: 3 years sober.
5. Had my SRS.

Pretty massive changes I would say!

2015:

0. Healing from my SRS.
1. Finishing up hair removal, almost done.
2. Considering my next step... maybe partial FFS, such as a liplift.
3. Save money for surgical enhancements, if needed.
4. Enjoy my life for a change...

Congrats to all and good luck in the coming year!!!

2014 :

Published a book and several short stories and political columns
Refinanced our mortgage
Got a promotion
First car accident (OK, that was not a *good* accomplishment!)
Remodeled our kitchen

2015 :
Hopefully, I'll finally manage to find a new, better job
Keep my writing career going; publisher might be going under, so I need to shop around


... my life is boring.

2014:
1: Legally changed my name and gender marker!
2: Got my hormone levels into the typical female range for a woman my age.
3: Came out at work.
4: Began living my life authentically.
5: Was accepted, treated and seen as any other woman by the majority of people at work.
6: Fought tooth & nail to be allowed to use the women's bathroom at work.
7: Came out to all of my family and friends on Facebook to a rather great surprise reaction of acceptance from my relatives and friends.
8: Gained so many new friends who only know me as me
9: Began doing transgender activism in my state
10: Got a big raise at work! This surprised the heck out of me as I figured I'd be stagnant in pay forever now that I came out at work.
11: Lasered off all of the dark hairs on my beard, now I do electrolysis to kill off all the darn blonde & light brown hairs that laser didn't kill.
12: Turned my relationship completely upside down with my immediate family, sadly for the worse but oh well I'm happy being and living as me for once. It's a shame they can't share in that same happiness as me.

2015:
1: Reach my 1 year full time mark
2: Make a difference for transgender people in my state by being the best role model I can be and to do my best to enact positive legislation for our community.
3: With some luck I might be able to get part or all of my GCS surgery paid for by my insurance as I found documentation from them stating that GCS is medically necessary as long as I meet certain conditions. I have minus two, 1 year full time & 2 physiologists giving me the thumbs up for surgery.
4: Get GRS done in 2015!
5: Continue living my life happily.
6: Maybe have some very minor FFS done to correct two vain things I don't like about my face.
7: Maybe patch things up with my family if at all possible but I doubt as they have said as soon as I get GCS done they'll never speak to me ever again.

2014:
~discovered why i have been so depressed for a majority of my life.
~am making progress despite setbacks
~started therapy
~started working on my financial plan and general outline for my transition
~came out to closest online friends
~came out to most of my family and either have their support, or acceptance, or both. (mom, stepdad, sister, and uncle.)   (yet to tell grandparents ~omg s*** storm incoming~)
~read every post, on 4 different trans* related support/duscussion sites
~figured out who my real friends are... and arent (the person i was planning on coming out to first at work, discovered is extremely trans/homo phobic, and extreme gossiper.  turned on me and is stirring up things at work... so glad i am not telling her) 
~figured out who i actually will come out to first at work.
~using one-touch electrolysis on body hairs in various regions.   becoming quite proficient with it.  almost 250 hours over the last 2 months.  (cleared an area ~ 4-5 square inches and growing, and can maintain it clear in about 6-7 hours a week now, alot of hairs that still come in are blonde)  will be up to ~400 hours by end of year.

2014 setbacks
~prior to my realization and coming out to, and accepting myself.   had my car accident that put me 6$k usd into debt, not counting vehicle expences and general bills and involved knee surgery.

2015:
~get grandpa paid off and remove the last of my debt by march.
~come out to best friend/roommate before he leaves for bootcamp in march.
~start hrt by june.
~start professional electrolysis on beard when i start hrt.
~come out at work.
~when i can semi-reliably pass, get a transfer from work, and move.  towards end of year, or at the beginning of next year.
~make some good, reliable friends.
~get name change.

ongoing
~maintaining, and reviewing my financial and general plan.
~one-touch electrolysis.  increase cleared area.

ummm.

Great responses ladies, I've read through every single one, made me realise I could add a few extra goals to my 2015 list...

- begin a relationship with a loving, caring woman
- improve my relationship with my obstinate nay sayer father
- work on my illustration, cartooning, writing
- improve my work/life balance so that work doesn't chew it all up

You are all courageous, strong, inspiring women!

Quote from: Seras on November 23, 2014, 07:07:33 AM
Be awesome.

2014-
Lots of electro
Orchi
Legal name/gender change
Remodeled home office

2015-
Lose 30 pounds
Finish electro
Overcome fear of flying
SRS consultation
Launch band "Victoria's Other Secret" and become huge international rock star/supermodel