Paying for my bottom surgery and finally having it scheduled.

Done with the hospital visits this year, not falling apart financially though it was close, helping my daughter's homeless friend a while she found a place to live, coming out to my wife. That last one was the toughest and most calming.

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2016 hasn't been a great year, I think HRT and the beginning of medical transition has been what got me through it.

I am racking my brain, here in a steaming hot bathtub in a cozy warm house on a 30° F day. Nope, my best moment of 2016 was every moment of 2016. Don't get me wrong, I had the normal highs and lows of daily living, but 2016 has been a spectacular year of love and growth and prosperity and good friends and great food. I read many awesome books, played and won some spectacular championship level pool matches, saw much of many of my best friends, learned to play a drum kit, put many hours into improving my guitar skills, lost 50 pounds and stabilized at my ideal body weight. Wow, I could go on and on documenting the endless list of joys and pleasures I have enjoyed this year.

Thank you, Cindy, for asking the question. This moment of reflection has eased me into an ideal state of mind in which to eagerly welcome a brand new year sure to be one of equal or better delights.

Love, Miharu

Thanks, Mindy!
Living in India must be an adventure!

My daughter is close to being the same gender mix that I am, even mildly trans, but not enough to experience dysphoria as I've experienced it. However she seems to "get" how I feel.
She dresses androgynously, or boi, but doesn't complain about people seeing her as female, although I know how one can suppress things. She's an artist and clothes designer and designed the boi shirt she's wearing.

She started designing and sewing her own clothes and soft toys at five years old, won her first art show prize at four years old. At four, she rode her own little racking horse and could read before she was three.

I absolutely adore her, if you can't tell.

The day all the weight fell off my shoulders back in July when I came out to my family and received  their blessing. You'll always be Dad they said and I am alright with that as they will always be my kids. I had started estradiol about 5 days earlier. For thirty years they have know me as Dad. I don't imagine a Jeffery Tambor where I ask them to call me Mom.

Cindy, I am glad you are here for 2017.

GCS was the best thing to happen to me.

small victories maybe , but battles are won by small victories.

ears pierced - november
started electrolysis, first full clearing last wednesday
best of all the continued shedding of decades old self hatred

first time in memory I'm actually looking forward to a new year. 

June 30th. I was going to my first appointment to the GIC, which is a remarkable event in and of itself, when I stopped at a gas station. There was a girl doing a small questionnaire about how they did and how to improve their services. After finishing, I told her that it was now my turn to ask questions, and asked if she had noticed anything strange with me. She hadn't, I asked again, No nothing, Oh really? Then I told her Look I'm trans, and I pointed to my Adam's apple. She looked down and her eyes opened wide at that moment, and I knew that she wasn't white-lying or something. Really made my day!

From the beginning of the year, it was about continuing with my transition. My referral for GRS went in and in Dec, it finally got  reviewed by the clinical nurse. Hopefully I will start the new year, at least in the next few weeks, by getting a 'date with Dr. Brassard!

I think my best moment was coming out to by sisters. The immediate response of love, support and affirmation was so amazing.  It was beyond just the major relief I've gotten from each experience of coming out to someone else, this was truly uplifting. I've got a long road ahead of me but knowing that my sisters are behind me and ready to help me if I need them is every reassuring.

Coming out to my church in early March.

The response was amazingly positive.  I'd expected at best a polite "that's nice, dear" response.  Instead, people clapped and one person gave me what I gather was supposed to be a blessing (it's a UU church, so it wasn't that weird by their standards, though honestly I'm not sure what would be.)  There are the usual comments about being "brave," which never makes any sense to me, but people also say I'm a role model (?!?)

I soon felt accepted as a woman, I've gotten offers of support, and one congregant has been great about listening to me when I'm feeling low (which I've felt a lot), despite having a very busy schedule.  I've been speaking to the pastor regularly to help me break through my long-standing defensiveness.  And just today, the treasurer E-mailed me to express her excitement that she'd seen the first check from me with my Real Name(tm).

My name change on August 29th, and what it said on it.



I'm pretty sure the court should have used male pronouns since it was only a name change, not gender, but I'll take it! 

Hugs, Devlyn

Got a great nephew & great niece
Bought a Harley Sportster after wanting one since being a kid over 50 years ago
Shrunk enough to wear stretch jeans again

Quote from: islandgirl on January 02, 2017, 01:47:12 PM
From the beginning of the year, it was about continuing with my transition. My referral for GRS went in and in Dec, it finally got  reviewed by the clinical nurse. Hopefully I will start the new year, at least in the next few weeks, by getting a 'date with Dr. Brassard!

Certainly the best of news! I hope that all will fall into place and that 2017 will become one of the most memorable years for you! [emoji177]Julie 


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"Being alive when I was told would not be." And we are all so glad for that Cindi. Actually this entire string is such a fine list of great experiences.

For me it was realizing that I truly like myself and coming out full time. - Anne

Thanks Julie! Going through a bit of a rough spot in relationship due to all the changes that are taking place, many of them really quickly. I am excited to get my GRS but also concerned what this will mean for my relationship. Hugs, Kelly

Nobody has more to rejoice in than Cindy, but my best moment was shoving that 22g needle in my leg for the first time. Water for a woman dying of thirst.

Quote from: Cindy on December 31, 2016, 04:56:48 AM
I'm biased.

Being alive when I was told would not be.

So come on celebrate!

2016-2017 all a bit murky for me right now, dealing with medical issues, doctors and hospitals have a way of making celebrating anything unusual (not that I have to tell you!) but your optimism and courage in dealing with your own situation gives me strength and this something I badly need right now, so I am thankful for this!
Thank You Cindy! blessings![emoji177]Julie 


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For me, it has to be coming out to my wife, having her tell me she already knew and getting her loving complete support! A second would be starting the process which is now 5 months along!