I was just asked a question "What is like to have the operation I just had?" My answer - imagine doing something that increases your happiness by a factor of 4 but it's for the rest of your life.

I tell people I feel more centered. It was weird for me because I have small facial features and started passin relatively easy, but walking around in public I always had this lack of confidence as though everyone knew the secret in my pants ...

The day I got released we stopped for lunch on the way home and I noticed I finally felt like I should. Centered and more at peace. Which surprised me because I'd thought I had found that inner peace in my transition, but this increased it.

Descriptors: centered, more at peace and happier

I went out to dinner with a bunch of friends the day after I got home and I couldn't get a huge smile off my face.  I was uncomfortable and in pain but the happiest I've ever been in my life.  I really never doubted this was the right path for me and post-op I just can't believe the effect it's having on me and this is just the beginning!

Teresa

These are all good answers.   It is truly indescribable, and there's no way to know, not really, until you've gone through it.  It has made me feel more grounded that I've ever felt in my life.   It is my happy place, my safe and secure place, because I know that no matter what else happens in my life, no one can ever take this away from me.  I know it is the one best thing I've ever done, by far.

freeing   yes i have been set free from a life condemned as a legal male.. a fate to me worse than death..

Today though i may dress as a male or a female but thats because i can  ,,, not because i have too   ,,,  again i say ,,, freeing

yes

being set free but in a open and i can face the world now kind of way, no longer worrying your get caught out, exposed regardless if society says you pass or no

i have never had issues passing but since srs it has come together so much more completey then it ever did before, what i wear or dare to wear how i view the world and others around me.

i guess the hormones now have nothing to really fight against but inside i have never felt so alive