A different kind of thread.  I know you're begging for it. 

So now that you're post-op, done, transitioned...what are you up to?  What are your plans?  What are your future dreams?

Well "transition" (such little as there was) and SRS were 35.5 years ago at the tender age of 24. Assimilation was quick and I went on to live a pretty normal life - married twice, built a career, moved around a bit on the career path, did a lot of things I had always wanted to do, and then settled into a really good job and a nice community. Now I  am looking forward to retirement and hunting for husband #3 

I've only been post-op for a little over a year & I still have so many dreams to realise but I'm taking it one day at a time.  I want to savour each moment slowly without rush.  Life is good, life's been so kind & I'm very grateful to have made it.  That's all I can say.

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So now that you're post-op, done, transitioned...what are you up to?

Now that I'm post-op my life's finally taking its course & I don't seem to be obsessed with the trans things that one time were the center of my life.

Quote What are your plans?  What are your future dreams?

I don't want to count the chickens before the eggs hatch.  Lol  I've got many plans, some too personal to mention here.  I couldn't be happier.

I volunteer for community projects and on several boards. I read and do not watch TV. I take care of my health exercise and cook all meals. I visit with neighbors and family. I keep in contact with old friends and do some consulting. I love my life and have no need for dreams or more material success.

It's been great to put transition "behind" and start moving forward. I am returning to school to finally study something for "me" I am dual majoring in Islamic Studies and Arabic..super excited to start in January..it's a bit embarrassing to be a 21 year old freshman..but oh well.. I had some bumps in the road I had to clear

Alice

I'm legally male, but I'm so early in transition that I haven't achieved any kind of status quo.

I live my life as if it were my last day on this earth.  When you've wasted two decades of your life living as some depressed automaton, you've got to compensate the loss by enjoying every second of it.  I transitioned for me, I had GRS for me, I had FFS for me & I'm living my life for me too.

For myself life couldn't be any more normal.  I have a great well paying job as the safety manager of a large transportation company, a great pub to socialize with friends, a nice comfy apartment that I share with a wonderful man and if all goes according to plan we will marry next spring.  I wouldn't change anything for the world.  I love my life.

-={LR}=-

hmm

going to school for nursing
working too much
have a boyfriend who knows about my past and is incredibly supportive.  (hes actually a therapist, haha go figure)
parents still hate me along with the rest of the family, but i cant change that.
thats about it.

I was 3 months after SRS going to be better.
Then something went wrong. I do not know am I really a postie anymore. Infections, pain and lot of different doctors. Intra-vaginal wounds.

Work, lecture, play sports, hang out with friends, date.... basically I live.

Just living life as a normal woman, hopefully I'II marry my boyfriend next year which was cancelled earlier this year, I feel pre marriage nerves coming on, I guess Im now just a typical girl, I love my life now, I love being a girl, I love being a woman, I love just being ME!
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Nothing out of this world, working despite this terrible cold (flu?), living, loving, getting myself out there & doing my best.

same as everybody else i guess.  loving, working, living. life's good. enough said!

Life is good!!! I'm figuring out my next career path after 20+ years in IT, volunteering at the local LGBT community center, starting to investigate grad programs in counseling, starting to work on dating again.

Much of my life is just trying to live the same life I had before.  Except now as a woman.  And with a partner that is way more loving and understanding than I deserve.  She is a saint.

After too long a hiatus, I have restarted my acting "career" with my participation in my local community theatre group.

The other changes include becoming much more active in the LGBT community and picking up other pieces of my life that I abandoned in my previous life.

I also threw away the noose I had been playing with before.  I don't seem as interested in playing with it anymore.

-Sandy

Living life, enjoying friendships, looking at new career options in this @#$& economy, loving my husband and trying to be the best wife I can be, trying to plan and save for retirement in a few decades. Loving that I finally feel comfortable enough to start performing musically and singing the songs I've written.

It is weird how something so all encompassing and important to you becomes a nothing and a memory once you are on the other side. Weird but oh so comforting.

Shana

Studying a lot & trying to squeeze dating at the same time.  It's a tough job but I've managed it so far.  I've got to echo what people are saying.  Life couldn't be better.

This question about life after SRS has been a central and a very important issue to me before my SRS and afterward. I have always been passionate about my career. Given, my humble circumstances of life, from a very early age, I have always have had big hopes and dreams for the future. Hard work was something that I did not just accept, but learned to embrace as a path to career success. I found that the quality, not the amount, of my passion and ambitions changed with SRS.

But, my transition did have a major impact on every aspect of my life, including having a profound affect on my career. I have more than 10 years of college and a number of degrees and find myself significantly under employed, working at a marginally professional job in which I am accepted (tolerated) for who I am. Unfortunately, I do not totally pass as a female. Therefore, I am anxious about risking what I have and seeking a new and untested job situation, even though I feel that I am professionally stagnating.

I should not be overly negative. I have a beautiful three bedroom apartment of my own, a stable job that pays me roughly a modest middle class income, and am saving more than $2,000 per month. But, in spite of my career efforts and attempt at savings, I see myself as still playing catch up professionally and financially relative to others of my age and with my advanced education. Sadly, I do not believe that many would view me as achieving middle class success.

So, even though, I have a relatively stable (boring and even stagnating) moderately normal life, I have major concerns about my future career and financiers. Further, I have had to make major sacrifices socially for my job and consequently I am very socially isolated and alone which I feel intensely.