My biggest fear is 4 hours of anaesthesia in a few days time. Other than that, all my fears are behind me. Most of them proved groundless and of those few that did come to pass, none of them were as bad as I feared.

Mine is the fear of just giving up on physically improving my body. I've had a facelift, plastic surgery on my face, eye lid surgery, liposuction & a tummy tuck. On the atkins diet for 4 months & lost 25 pounds. My body looks OK, 5-9, small hands, small feet, size 14 dress for now, B cup breasts & I have a nice face & voice but still some stupid facial hairs, do I ever hate those hairs!!! And my scale hair is thin, I've tried everything & guess no other choice than hair club for women for transplants, that's expensive. I so hate to wear a wig, ugggg. I want a nice head of longer real hair! I found a nice surgeon for my grs which will be easy for me after so much other surgery. A normal depth vagina will be nice but I want to become a complete 24/7 very normal attractive sexy woman, not some halfway person.

I'm afraid my penis will stop working when I start HRT. I want to be a girl but do not want SRS.

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Quote from: rachel.i.prince on August 03, 2015, 06:52:14 AM
I'm afraid my penis will stop working when I start HRT. I want to be a girl but do not want SRS.

Most people find "down below" gets dysfunctional on HRT. Whilst yours may not, the odds are not in your favour. I thought I was a cross-dresser until HRT unshackled all my restraints. Now I have fully transitioned. Just be prepared. HRT can be subtle and you may not notice the changes happening very gradually, but changes there will be.

Quote from: rachel.i.prince on August 03, 2015, 06:52:14 AM
I'm afraid my penis will stop working when I start HRT. I want to be a girl but do not want SRS.

Well My Mr Happy went from Mr Happy to Florida within the first 2 weeks of HRT. i have rare occasions where it tries to assert its authority but those are very few and far between.

My biggest fear has always been my transition harming my kids.

Quote from: rachel.i.prince on August 03, 2015, 06:52:14 AM
I'm afraid my penis will stop working when I start HRT. I want to be a girl but do not want SRS.

YMMV 
Generally I find, that the lower the dose of anti-androgen (while maintaining female ranges of testosterone), the better your chances of obtaining and keeping an erection are.

It's a very fine line.. I was prescribed a certain dose, but I only took half for a while. Now I need a little more, which is not easy to administrate because it's around an 8th of a pill.

My biggest fears are never getting FFS with a good surgeon or working really hard to save for years, getting it, and having bad results and/or chronic pain from nerve damage for the entire rest of my life. I also fear any kind of economic or societal turmoil that might prevent me from being able to access hormones.

That I'll never look like a girl.

Quote from: Angieisalone on August 04, 2015, 12:37:30 PM
That I'll never look like a girl.

THAT is my second biggest fear.

Who the hell am I kidding. My ONLY fear about "transitioning" (trying to change my disgusting body and face into a woman's) is NOT PASSING, BEING MISGENDERED any time any place, for any reason. I don't dream anymore, I just have nightmares on a daily basis, about it and now they are becoming true. I wish one could choose upon birth, if one will be cis or trans, and if one wants to live or not. Sorry you may read between the  lines what happened to me today. I am so tired of having to put an effort to be seen as what i want to be seen. Sorry.Just feeling utterly depressed and wanting to die after six years on HRT and still looking like total sh$%. sometimes I think that not even the most extensive FFS will "fix" me. And then again, I can't afford anything anyways.

For me it is ending up living alone and having no one to share a life with.  I have love and support of family and friends, but it is the lack of day to day companionship that worries me. 

I find that I have given thought to most of the things mentioned in this thread. Yet my biggest fear currently is the fear that I may never get to transition completely due to the financial requirements. I let social anxiety brought on by dysphoria and depression keep me from making much progress as far as a career goes in my 20's. Now at 31 I curse having lost so much time and feeling as if I have to scramble to make up for it...or how to even go about doing so.

Quote from: Mariah2014 on August 02, 2015, 03:51:12 PM
Coming into transition it was being told no you can't do this. Now that I have transition my biggest fear is dealing with my moms funeral itself when the time comes. Some of the family have been left out of the loop. Since I never see them and they are really getting up there in age there was no need to tell them, but still it will make for an awkward situation when the time comes.
Mariah

This is my biggest worry too Mariah.  My Mum has outlived all her siblings and other older relatives, but instead I will have to deal with my two brothers who hate me and the fact that Mum's will is heavily in my favour because I was her caregiver for so long.

One of my biggest fears was being postop and being dissatisfied with my new lady parts. I have heard horror stories of fistulas but also loss of sensitivity and ability to orgasm.

I mean if I pick up a boyfriend (like my aunt suggested, lol) I would definitely want to be intimate with him...

My biggest fear is truly living on my own for the first time in my life.

A health condition that would prevent me from continuing hrt. That is my worst nightmare!!!

I usually avoid Susan's because I end up talking about this sort of thing and it makes me angry and depressed. I find that I have a anxiety and probably unrealistic expectations concerning transition. Because of that I have been trying to take things one step at a time but it's very frustrating because I honestly would like to get on with my life. Right now I've been on HRT for some time and I have been getting laser hair removal as well. I have already had to ask for a medication increase and for additional blockers and estrogen as well on 2 separate occasions. Hopefully those kick in sometime soon. The laser hair removal hasn't been effective except for my cheeks and neck and that's really frustrating too.

My daughter not being able to accept me

Losing my wife....

Unfortunately, I think that this may happen, and it's out of my control.