I know, I know... I can't resist playing word association football.

Quote from: CindyJames on March 16, 2011, 05:36:35 AM
Listen teenager, when you get then flaunt them, I'm 58.

Cindy

I strongly agree with Cindy.  I'm 53, and I've finally got 'em, and I *DO* flaunt them whenever I'm dressed.

Heh, thanks - this ongoing conversation I've been having here on several threads over the last week has been gradually sorting me out. I'm feeling less like I have to know exactly what's going to happen, because I'm more sure what I want to happen, if that makes sense. So I don't need to know what I'll be wearing a year from now, I just know the direction I'm headed and what to do next. Move house, arrive, find local resources, get on with it. Facial hair is first on the list, then getting my girl friends to take me shopping somewhere that caters for tall funky women and seeing what grabs me - then GP, shrink, letters, blardie-blah. Meanwhile, make a new home, get a job, get on with the rest of my life too.

It's my usual MO when I'm unsure about a situation - try and find out everything!!! But I'm relaxing into this now.

try www.joebrowns.co.uk they might have a few bits right up your street hun.

Or depending on your size you can get joe browns in plus sizes from www.classicconfidence.co.uk

like Helena I wear a lot of Joe browns gear - but then we decided a long time ago when we first met up that I probably am Helena from the future and I've put on a bit of weight in my old age.

Gotta love women's clothing descriptions: "Uncompromisingly authentic and great with a strappy top or a tee."

! Clothes 

As a "tried to be crossdresser" once, I can say with no authority at all that the only reason to dress in women's clothing is to help people identify you as a woman- perhaps even to help yourself identify as such. Or, like, to help you feel more womanly or hot.

Oh, hell with it! I have a shirt and jeans on, and I don't even really think this can be called guy mode anymore.

I haven't been able to wear jeans for 20 years due to "waterworks issues" - I'm curious to see whether getting "rearranged" will fix that (in fact I could probably specifically request it...) .

Oh god, I've just had a sudden dismal vision of myself a year from now in skinny jeans and a hippy smock - that's it, I'm becoming a fireman instead.

May as well, you only have to pay about $20,000 + for the procedure (or is it all covered in the UK?).

Quote from: EmmaM on March 16, 2011, 05:52:20 PM
May as well, you only have to pay about $20,000 + for the procedure (or is it all covered in the UK?).

It is covered - IF you can be patient enough to wait about 3 to 5 years.

Most can't. and in any case our prices are rather cheaper. We can get a decent UK surgeon for between £8000 and £10000.

Ah and Yoxi - we will have to talk about that. I too had some minor "issues", which I didn't know then, but know now, were clues that I was an undiagnosed partial androgen insensitive intersex.

I don't know yet - I think it depends on how much of a hurry you're in. It is available on the NHS, but it can take around 4 years from initial GP referral to surgery (partly conservatism, partly waiting lists) - by which time the economy will have collapsed and I'll have to pay for it anyway, so I'm contemplating going the private route to cut down the waiting.

Oops, cross-posted.

[TMI alert] My urethra got damaged when I was a kid, due to inappropriate behaviour from adults - I've had to have it "rebored" a few times over my life, it'd be nice to lose most of it! The jeans issue is that it runs nearer the surface (i.e. my perineum) than it does on most men, and that thick double seam you get on jeans crotches digs in something awful if I sit down in them. This is why I've spent the last 20 years in karate trousers or chinos (well, also for reasons of considerable style) .