*started HRT (feb)
*began hair professional hair removal, laser and electrolysis
*living myself except not open to work
*hurt at work(July)
*living full time in all ways(July)
*partial recovery from injury, can now standup not bent over and can sleep at night(oct)
*lost job for certain and health insurance
*still closer to happy than ever before

Quote from: JoanneB on December 08, 2017, 08:26:33 PM

• Gave up   

How about - took a pause or hopped off the train or catching my breath?

*   Dec 1 year on hrt
*   Continuous Hair removal on face
*   First time fully out to basically everyone in my life as of now
*   Did my papers for gender marker and Name change
*   Lost weight and gain it and lost it and so on
*   Had my first kiss as a girl by a (guy)  and a (girl)
*   Got full time job and benifits where I work took 13 years 
*   I can see myself in a mirror and not look away immediately
*   Got much better with make up and faster
*   Faced all my faults dealing with them
*   Admitted to my self I am attracted to males as well
*   First time I feel real and not fake

• World finally imploded
• Started therapy
• came out to my therapist
• made comfortably emotionally numb
• just managed to stop harming (again)

Rowan

   .started electrolysis/lazer
   .started HRT
   .came out to children and most friends all ok
 
   .had non related surgery
   .spoke at home towns first T.D.O.R. vigil
   . developed DVT
   .off HRT
   .back on blockers E on hold for now
     .outed at work while in hospital
   .went fulltime today
   . wow

. quit speed weed & coke
. cut back on drinking
. hooked up with 2 guys & a girl ( not all at once)
.started riding with a really good crew (Sportster Sickness North West)
. explored parts of the UK I never been before or since I was a kid (North East, Scotland, Wales, East Anglia, Yorkshire,Derbyshire, Shropshire, the East coast)
.getting my teeth straightened

Quote from: bobbisue on December 09, 2017, 04:15:25 PM
   ....
   .went fulltime today
   ....

Congratulations!!!  I hope your experience is/was as positive as mine.

- finally decided it was time
- came out to wife (may), family (August), friends (mostly sept)
- started laser on face (aug) and chest (sept)
- out to HR at work (aug)
- started hrt (aug)
- first shopping trip with wife as me (oct)
- FFS consultations (oct-dec)
- received first miss... err.. sorry (nov)
- out to manager at work (nov)
- fully appreciated the usefulness of a sports bra (nov)
- first road trip with wife as me (dec)

The Good

• Started HRT (Feb)
• Started laser (Feb)
• Made new supportive friends (Feb)
• Started Presenting as Female in public (May)
• Started requesting friends call me Jillian (June)
• Started Legal Name change paperwork hearing scheduled 1/8/18 (Sept)
• Full-Time (Sept)
• Started Electrolysis Face (Oct)
• Started Electrolysis Other (Dec)
• Gendered female by several strangers (Dec)

The Bad

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

• Attempted suicide - Jan
• Accepted the truth, began researching transition - Jan-May
• Came out to friends, started therapy - May
• Started laser, came out to family & other friends, went out dressed for the first time, made two new great lady friends - June
• Started HRT, started living part-time - July
• First all-girl shopping trip! - August
• Finished laser - Nov
• Started electrolysis, possibly other big news - Dec
• ......
• Profit!

Quote from: JillianC on December 11, 2017, 08:02:09 AM

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

I know that feeling, ugh.

Nice thread, great seeing a synopsis of everybody.  Here's mine

* Started year thinking everything was OK, thought I had beaten the trans beast got good.
* Came back with a vengeance on one business trip to Paris.
* Back to the states, try to do DIY again, and it's not working (herbal crap), hit rock bottom for GD.
* Accepted who I am, what I am, order real meds DIY.
* Decided, this is real, made doctors appt, formal diagnosis, monitored and prescribed hrt.
* Turned 47.
* Donated 70% of boy clothes.
* Came out to close family.
* Completed about 30 hrs electrolysis and a few sessions of laser.
* Met a lot of people i think of as friends on Susan's and at therapy.
* I'm happier.

Bari Jo

Quote from: Denise on December 10, 2017, 10:20:44 PM
Congratulations!!!  I hope your experience is/was as positive as mine.

      .Thanks Denise
      .off work till Jan dropped in fully dressed ,went well
      .went shopping at local co-op all great

      bobbisue

Quote from: JillianC on December 11, 2017, 08:02:09 AM
...
The Bad

• Still seeing dude in mirror (currently)

In my opinion, next to relationships, this is the hardest/cruelest aspect of MtF transition.  For me it was a simple change in hair style that helped me to see Denise in the mirror. All I did was move the part in my hair 1 inch too the side.



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• [8/2016 Crisis level dysphoria, joined Susan's, started therapy]

• Huge catharsis in therapy, figured out the problem, embraced what I am

• Therapy progressed, dysphoria coming under control

• Resumed meditation practice, dysphoria further controlled

• 1/2017 purged feminine effects

• 2/2017 regrets...

• 3/2017--onward: status quo, no better, no worse

Sounds pretty grim as I write this summary.

Steph

• Did a whole lot of research on gender identity and found myself, finally
• Quit making up excuses after 4 years of avoiding being trans
• Recognized my mental illness and worked through it
• Became engaged to my gf, and came out to her as trans
• Chose my new name, even though I have yet to change it legally
• Recently went to a Universalist church for the first time, and introduced myself with my male name!
  
• I've come so far in terms of being and feeling masculine, and accepting myself as a man.  Finally feel like I'm getting on with my life.

- Hair transplant March
- GCS September
- Name change December
- Have become totally comfortable being me

Lost 24 pounds
Hair transplants in March and September
BA
VFS
Passport in my name and gender
Divorced in June
Belly Button pierced
Clitoral hood

*Finally accepted what I've been trying to deny for A. Very. Long. Time. (Dec)
*First Dr appointment (Dec)


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Quote from: Denise on December 08, 2017, 12:45:58 PM

• grew comfortable with myself (April)
• went full time (March)
• legal name change (October)
• learned to like myself (grew slowly all year)
• Breast Augmentation (Halloween)[\li]
  
  • see female in the mirror (December)
  • unfortunately: Divorced (December)
  How about you?
  

I started to be more mature and realize life is more than drinking and partying and being popular.(I am not popular).
  I was in different group of friends. 
Done different things , lived different places .
And being open about being a very feminine transgender/transexual lesbian women. 2017 was a special year , where i had more progress than previous years and was in many different situations.[/list]