I suppose I've gotten my fair share of looks, but I've never actually been harrassed, besides employers. I run alone and am not an imposing person, but I get left alone. I have not even been taunted. Is this unusual?

Count you're blessings!

While it's not unusual to have a smooth transtion, it will offer it's challenges.

Mine was fairly simple with respect to family and friends.

*shrug*

Just my 2 cents

Yeah, same, Aside from... family, its been pretty smooth for me. No taunts, questions, 'omg ->-bleeped-<-' moments... DUnno about looks, i went from androgynous to female without much hastle.... I guess i slipped through the cracks.

A few bumps in the road.  Lose my job, thus medical coverage.  But no real hassles or confrontations.

We are truly blessed for not having a great obstacles.


Janet

Because I'm so well known in my local community, when someone I know (who hasn't yet seen me) walks through the door of my business, I get the "OMG", "What happened"! But for the most part people have been very good about not making a big issue over it. Out in public, I've only had one situation where a young teen girl thought she needed a picture of me for whatever reason.

Other than that, I've never been taunted, pointed at or openly laughed at that I've detected. Pretty smooth sailing, I'd say!


Dawn

No problems.

But I think it's easier going F --> M esp. in an area of a lot of lesbians.  Nobody looked at me twice and now I pass 100%.  I'll probably get harrassed more for being a short nerd than being trans.


Jay

I'd say i'm maybe 90% out. I always dress like a guy ect out in public but I don't yet use the mens room. I know I get odd looks but so far no one has said anything to me.  Oh and I haven't come out to an employer yet (not working atm).

Yes.

It was kind of unnerving. I was ready and expecting confrontation and stuff like that. When I simply started to be me all the time and using the proper clothing things, people didnt raised an eye to look at me twice.

I was dumbfounded since I thought things were going to be much worse and when they didnt it threw me off balance.

ya so far its just family giving me trouble. I'm sure there will be some public harassment at some point though....and work has yet to know....that'll be quite interesting with some very fundamental believing founders of the company.

Only obnoxious parts have been at school. Take a classroom of stupid kids and have the teachers (respectfully) addressing me as he and my male name all semester long because I actually participate in the lectures and ask questions, and eventually you get people talking about my breasts.

Next semester that won't be a problem.

Early on I confused the local right wingers who would alternate telling me I was either a confused young man or a confused young woman and that they would pray for me. I found that laughing in their face was the best response.

The past five years or so, not so much and I could care less. I live and that is all that matters.

I thought when I started going out full time I would run into problems, but its been quiet the opposite. Now I have men smiling, talking and opening doors. And the free drinks are kinda nice too ;-)

Havnt had any one hassel me.

Not even started RLT that I already lost a job because over a few month I "had changed". The guy was an absolute homophobic bigot.

That should be better after my FFS.

Like others, family was (is) the hardest obstacle. I live an hour from my immediate family, and hence don't see them as often as the rest of the people in my life. Therefore, it's frustrating when after being full time for nearly two years and everyone else in my life having made the transition totally fine, I still get the occasional "he" or "<old name>" from my family. It throws me off, since I don't hear incorrect pronouns at all anywhere else, then I go home and I have to continually be reminded of my past.

Besides that though, RLT (ie. life, at this point) has been dandy.

~Sarah

The worst I've gotten were a few raised eyebrows early on.  I still get the occassional "he" or "him" from friends and family (6 months RLE) but they are becoming fewer.  And a waiter I know at a local Mexican restaurant still calls me "amigo", but I don't go there much anymore.

I've been really surprised and pleased how accepting everyone has been.  Maybe there is hope for our civilization.

- Kate

Kate, you are a serious pain in my ass. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a teen. When I was a teen, I wanted to be an adult. If I live till May, I'll be 40. It was all supposed to just go downhill after 25. Now there's more to look forward to if I can just find the will.

One week so far, and me making a point to go to town every day and "show off" and no, so far nothing. Over the last few months if I was out dressed maybe 3 times someone has shouted from a car window or some such, but nothing direct.

On the other hand, since I've started going, essentially, full time this week, my wife has had a really hard week and the tension at home is ratcheted up pretty high.

No taunting directly but I've had friends in the early stages tell me they saw some person or group pointing at me and other obvious things in public places. I used to be so self conscious...so glad I didn't notice that.

I started living a double life in my teens, back in the 1960's, but I was never "out". As an "M" (which was on my birth certificate) I was always hassled, I was "odd", and it showed. As a girl, I fit perfectly, was more comfortable, and way more natural. The only looks I got were good ones. At transition/SRS (age 24) life just went to totally normal.