Before I came here, I was under the impression I start my life as a woman after becoming post op.

Though I had read about the effects of hormones, reading stories here, then watching youtube videos, I was amazing how dramatic the visual changes are. The time I would start my life living as a woman could be months, instead of years. I'm so excited. I should look into starting hormones in the not so distant future.

"The time I would start my life living as a woman could be months"

Good for you, Stephanie.

If you're here on this board and looking into ways of transitioning you've already started living as a woman. A man would never consider taking women's hormones unless for some very odd reason they were the only way to keep his body alive. Even then he might have second thoughts. You don't become a woman after surgery or after hormones or after buying your first pair of pumps. You can not become a woman because that is what you already are.

I've had no surgery and the only HRT I use is over the counter herbs which are no where near as strong as you can get from a doctor yet that doesn't make me a man. I'm a transwoman and if tomorrow I woke up in a place where hormones, surgery and even dressing as a woman were impossible I would still be a woman, nothing will ever change that. Like I said you can't become a woman because you can't become something that you all ready are. Post op transwomen don't wake up after surgery to find that they have become a woman. They wake up to find that their body now matches what they truly are and always have been. There is no line to cross to become a woman.

I've met pre op transwoman, post op transwomen, transwomen that passed, transwomen that didn't but they were all still women and so are you, so am I. Who you are is on the inside.

That's excellent! You should be amazed by what HRT can accomplish.

Bear in mind that most surgeons still prefer a year living full-time as a woman before you can schedule GRS, so this isn't just a possibility, it's the way most of us do it.

Quote from: diane 2606 on November 30, 2015, 10:14:26 PM
"The time I would start my life living as a woman could be months"

Good for you, Stephanie.

I'm trying to be patience until I can start the transition.
Waiting for my life to finally begin.

Quote from: Christy76 on November 30, 2015, 10:20:17 PM
If you're here on this board and looking into ways of transitioning you've already started living as a woman. A man would never consider taking women's hormones unless for some very odd reason they were the only way to keep his body alive. Even then he might have second thoughts. You don't become a woman after surgery or after hormones or after buying your first pair of pumps. You can not become a woman because that is what you already are.

I've had no surgery and the only HRT I use is over the counter herbs which are no where near as strong as you can get from a doctor yet that doesn't make me a man. I'm a transwoman and if tomorrow I woke up in a place where hormones, surgery and even dressing as a woman were impossible I would still be a woman, nothing will ever change that. Like I said you can't become a woman because you can't become something that you all ready are. Post op transwomen don't wake up after surgery to find that they have become a woman. They wake up to find that their body now matches what they truly are and always have been. There is no line to cross to become a woman.

I've met pre op transwoman, post op transwomen, transwomen that passed, transwomen that didn't but they were all still women and so are you, so am I. Who you are is on the inside.

I am a woman.

Waiting for a time I'll start looking more like a woman.

Quote from: Jenna Marie on December 01, 2015, 09:35:57 AM
That's excellent! You should be amazed by what HRT can accomplish.

Bear in mind that most surgeons still prefer a year living full-time as a woman before you can schedule GRS, so this isn't just a possibility, it's the way most of us do it.

Hopefully I've get that vagina one day.