Two years have gone pretty fast. In some ways the last two years have gone faster the two months before than when I was hanging out to get on HRT... time was like molasses then!
It's hard to know what to say about the last twelve months. What has really obviously changed between now and my first year on HRT? It was pretty easy to note the differences at one year, I guess in the months that have followed it has been more of the same but less noticeable and slower.
Can't say that I feel my boobs have gotten much bigger. I think maybe they have in a rounding out kind of way, every now and then I can feel them itching but it seems they've stopped at a B cup and while I'm very happy with that I wouldn't say no to a C either.
Body hair has pretty much vanished - what remains is very fine and grows much more slowly now. Haven't needed to wax my arms in over nine months now. Chest requires very little maintenance for stray hairs. Even my beard (what's left of it) has slowed down considerably.
Certainly the beard itself is much less dependent on HRT, but at two years I've now had 100 hours of electro and maybe only 30 or so to go before shaving is never again required (I hope).
Body fat distribution? This is one of those things that has probably changed a lot more than I can judge - my endo certainly reckons it has but to me there seems to have been little over the last year. But my backside has definitely rounded out.
Believe it or not I still get misgendered, usually if I'm wearing jeans and it's cold and I have to wear a lot of bulky clothing to stay warm. Usually even in these cases I'm still doing good until I have to speak. Just yesterday I had a taxi driver call me "sir", I just replied "that's madam, thank you" and he apologised and said "yes, sorry, of course, madam". He was more embarrassed than I was. I wasn't feeling great anyway, have been struggling with a head cold this last two weeks now plus the weather has been miserable and it has really screwed with my voice and my enthusiasm for "passing" anyway so I don't think recent misgenderings are representative of my overall presentation or progress on that front.
If I was to point to one thing that has really changed over the last twelve months it is my confidence which has continued to grow. Yes, I've had a few kick in the backsides that weren't too pleasant but I seem to given up caring about them. I'm happy with my presentation - I knew without a doubt that I am a woman, my transition has helped align my body reasonably well with my mind and it feels great.
I suppose HRT changes will continue, over the next two years there may be many more subtle developments. As long as they are positive I don't really care how subtle they are!!
