So how sure where you

[Petunia]

I'm sure there are a lot of girls and guys who have read my posts.

I'd love to know what it was that made you decided to try hrt and/or transition.

In my last psych visit I said I really don't have an overwhelming need to be a woman.

At the same time I really don't feel like a cis man and I'd prefer to never touch male clothes again

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

In a way I kind of just decided I wanted to go on HRT and gain a more feminine body and look. I considered myself non binary and was thinking of being more androgynous. However through the process I was getting huge gender euphoria and a feeling something was very right about me being a woman.

It was very sudden in a way, but in another not as I'd already being dressing in women's clothes day to day as a man and living as a women in my furry activities. It all just kinda  merged and I decided fully transitioning was what I wanted.

Forward to now I still feel I want to be a woman and many things keep reinforcing this decision is right. I still think I'm alternative gender e.g. agender. My struggle is matching my vision to reality and settling into my new identity. This will probably take time, but I really feel good as a woman to the most part.

[Maid Marion]

For me the risks outweigh the benefits, especially with issues in insuring a constant source of HRT medications in the future. 
I have the voice, walk, and mannerisms that made me "male fail" all the time when I had a full beard and wore poorly fitting boy's clothes.  Last time I asked where the rest room was they directed me to the ladies room at Walmart.

I am very fortunate to have an hourglass figure that allows me to wear model sample sizes.
I'm short, so today's skin baring styles allow me to wear those very same clothes in a more appropriate manner for my age!  Though it might be better if I weren't so short, at 5ft 2inches.  My weight topped out last winter at 110 lbs when I was learning to make baked goods.  My A1C was a little high so I've cut back on the carbs.

Marion

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

This is an excerpt from my 'coming out' story:

In December 2016 I found a transgender site where members shared their stories. Story after story I thought "I could have written that". It hit suddenly. I saw the truth. In seconds I went from thinking I was just a cross-dresser with severe anger issues to knowing I was transgender. I now had a choice, a choice between growing angrier and more miserable every year, or finding peace by letting the person I have always been come out of the darkness. My decision could cost me everyone I love -- my wife, my daughters, my family, my friends. In tears, I chose to begin a new journey.

I won't say it was an easy choice, or an easy journey, but it was the right decision.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Stottie Girl]

Since my earliest memories I knew I was supposed to be a girl. I have never had any doubt on that front.

There wasn't much information available when I was growing up pre internet. Even when I did discover in my late teens that changing genders was a possibility, the examples I saw were quite obviously a man in a dress so I figured if I couldn't make a reasonable stab at passing I would try to live with it as I was. But of course as I got older and older it got harder and harder to ignore.

I always dressed en femme, not for the thrill but because of how it made me feel, the relief of it I guess.

Later on when I realised FFS was becoming a thing we could actually get, I came to the conclusion that it might be possible to have a complete transition. I tried HRT off and on in my late 30's and got a small amount of breast growth and it felt amazing but I wasn't ready to take it further. Then in my mid 40's I knew I wanted to change my body as much as I possibly could and I've been taking HRT ever since.

At no point have I ever doubted who or what I was. I just wish I had more courage and could have made the leap years ago.