I had to Do a site induction talk today for a new Contractor on site .My boss introduced me as this is Toni she will do your induction today .What a rush I feel on top of the world that is affirming my gender as I feel inside and I love it

Toni

Toni- Thanks for the early a.m. reminder for me be to be grateful for the small things in this long journey. Mine came in the form of an email when a person with whom I had ties to from the military started with, "Dear Sheila-". Small things make a great difference in the quality of my life as a woman. Blessings, Sheila Grace

This morning as I was getting ready to leave work (I work an overnight shift right now), one of the guys I know from day shift stopped to chat for a few seconds.  I'm still presenting male there, my official coming out day is next Thursday but for now still guy clothes.

Anyway, while we were talking he said:  "You know, you remind me of someone."  I was thinking oh wow, here we go......  Then he continues :  "Um.....  ok so this is a woman so don't get mad at me ok?" 

My reply:  "You have no idea how NOT mad I am about that." 

So apparently I look like a chef on QVC.  I'll take that, especially in guy mode!

Today I went home earlier. Was at my home isle and shops around 17.30. It was already getting dark.
I love when it is getting dark that early. This is my part of the year.

My wife came home from work and she wanted to see the real me, a women, for the first time.  She liked my wig, and said my dress was very cute   Big step for us, and it felt great being me for the rest of the night with her and my daughter.  She even mentioned after we put our daughter to bed she was going to help with my makeup.

A fantastic day!

For the past two months I've been drinking spearmint tea almost every night. Nothing special just the one that you can get at any grocery chain. Since studies had suggested that it slowed hair growth. I'll admit I didn't believe it but thought well for a couple of dollars what can it hurt?

I always feel my soon to be gone facial hair every morning and noticed something is different. Every morning my face feels rough and I can really feel and notice the stubble. But today it's not as rough by far big difference. This is almost twenty hours since my last shave as well.

So I'm hoping my body is going to take to estrogen like a duck to water if I'm getting results just from a very weak anti androgen.

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Quote from: RavenL on October 29, 2015, 07:49:19 AM


I always feel my soon to be gone facial hair every morning and noticed something is different. Every morning my face feels rough and I can really feel and notice the stubble. But today it's not as rough by far big difference. This is almost twenty hours since my last shave as well.

So I'm hoping my body is going to take to estrogen like a duck to water if I'm getting results just from a very weak anti androgen.

Hi Raven

I hope You can be as lucky as Me in that My beard growth has virtually stopped altogether as I live full time as a Woman I still quickly run a razor over my face to be safe but I don't really need to but I then moisturise before doing My makeup

Quote from: Emjay on October 28, 2015, 02:08:20 PM
This morning as I was getting ready to leave work (I work an overnight shift right now), one of the guys I know from day shift stopped to chat for a few seconds.  I'm still presenting male there, my official coming out day is next Thursday but for now still guy clothes.

Anyway, while we were talking he said:  "You know, you remind me of someone."  I was thinking oh wow, here we go......  Then he continues :  "Um.....  ok so this is a woman so don't get mad at me ok?" 

My reply:  "You have no idea how NOT mad I am about that." 

So apparently I look like a chef on QVC.  I'll take that, especially in guy mode!

Good luck next Thursday!!!!!

Quote from: ToniB on October 29, 2015, 08:59:32 AM





Hi Raven

I hope You can be as lucky as Me in that My beard growth has virtually stopped altogether as I live full time as a Woman I still quickly run a razor over my face to be safe but I don't really need to but I then moisturise before doing My makeup

I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I'm having good luck with weak anti androgens and proto estrogen in food and my body seeks to like it. Over the past few months I've dropped muscle mass and feel calmer. Just could do without being tired and cold. Of course it could be in my head who knows?


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I came out to my grandparents and they supportive and happy for me and even tried using my new name 

most of my facial hair is gone, just a few patches left under my jaw this really brightened my day because i haven't shaved in 3 days and still can't see the hair just feel it, hopefully after my 3rd laser session it will all be gone 

Two things for today:

• Even after skipping 3 weeks of electrolysis, my electrologists was able to clear my face in under 50 minutes.
  
  
• She pulled this slightly long ingrown hair out

Even though I exfoliate regular and use TendSkin, it just happens. She said that it's the longest one she has ever pulled out.

The most amazing thing happened today. I got a call from the manager of my local surgery saying my name has been updated on the NHS records (I started the process last week) but as I was the first transgender patient there, I learnt she had gone back and forth with a hospital to work out the process.

What came out of it was my old medical file was unregistered, I got a new NHS number with my new name on it for my protection. (Records were transferred to it but it basically kills the old name)

The best part? She had gotten my gender marker changed to female without me even asking! And I am not even on HRT yet since I'm waiting for my initial appointment. It seems she went to extra lengths to get that changed for me and when I saw the new blood test forms for December with my new details I nearly cried.

Had my hair done, took some photos and undated my avatar!

In trying to figure out a Halloween outfit to wear to work tomorrow, I tried on one of my old guy suits.  I think I am to the point I'm not going to get mistaken for a guy.  It's amazing what a little bit of estrogen, a little bit of time and a little bit of surgery can do.

Quote from: Jessie Ann on October 30, 2015, 12:43:43 AM
In trying to figure out a Halloween outfit to wear to work tomorrow, I tried on one of my old guy suits.  I think I am to the point I'm not going to get mistaken for a guy.

You are completely right! No way anyone would mistake you for a guy.  

Estrogen isn't supposed to work this fast... right?  I filled a prescription for a higher dose yesterday.  Breast volume doubled overnight (um, from tiny breast buds to half-as-tiny breast buds), I noticed that my facial fat distribution has been changing for the first time last night.  I'm wearing zombie makeup, and i got ma'am'd for the first time ever -- makeup isn't supposed to do that... right?  And a friend asked me what pronouns I prefer!

Quote from: sparrow on October 30, 2015, 06:21:52 PM
Estrogen isn't supposed to work this fast... right?  I filled a prescription for a higher dose yesterday.  Breast volume doubled overnight (um, from tiny breast buds to half-as-tiny breast buds), I noticed that my facial fat distribution has been changing for the first time last night.  I'm wearing zombie makeup, and i got ma'am'd for the first time ever -- makeup isn't supposed to do that... right?  And a friend asked me what pronouns I prefer!

Maybe, maybe not. Within a few days of starting P for me I definitely noticed volume increase as measured by bra tightness.

I love gentlemanly older men, bless their nearsighted hearts! (Yes, even though I'm a lesbian.) I wasn't particularly trying to pass today. I was trying to get through a particularly tiring day at work. I was looking for items for a shipment in an isle in Walmart today when an elderly gentleman excused himself and moved past me to get some medicine off of the shelf. He knocked a bottle of something else off of the shelf doing so and creakily bent to pick it back up. I said (not trying to used a feminine voice), "please let me get that for you." He responded, "oh, no, I'll get it. If I let you my father will be spinning in his grave, he raised me better than that." We chatted a short while, me concerned for when he would finally clock me. He never did! I passed with no makeup, what had become my typical voice and in the peculiarly androgynous "uniform" of a Walmart employee. Older people seem to accept me more often than younger ones. I think the younger ones are just more apt to look critically at any woman who isn't "pretty".

Quote from: Jessie Ann on October 30, 2015, 12:43:43 AM
In trying to figure out a Halloween outfit to wear to work tomorrow, I tried on one of my old guy suits.  I think I am to the point I'm not going to get mistaken for a guy.  It's amazing what a little bit of estrogen, a little bit of time and a little bit of surgery can do.

Oh me please lose the tie!!!! You are a woman, please no ties. I so enjoyed some 20-30 years ago with boxing up all my yuck male suits & ties & giving to Goodwill. I still get the willies even thinking about wearing a neck tie, Yuck. You look great otherwise, have fun woman.

Agreed on necktied, they are the bane of my existence. I'm happy because I came out to my uncle and he wrote me a really supportive message back. I figured he would be supportive, he's gay and lives in San Francisco. He immediately went to work describing how I can expand my support network. It was also really nice when he immediately referred to me as his niece, without questioning.