Jasmine:
Your story is so encouraging🤗
I am so happy for you🎉
Gloria
My day has been the best day ever I found out my insurance will cover all my therapy and surgery. I have my first appointment with the doctor on January 30, 2019. Years ago I had a dream that I would not be alive after the year 2020, I think it is true in the since that my old male side will be dead and Rebecca will be alive to live the life I have wanted.
Well, I made it to the gym twice this week (first in 10 years) and started the process of quitting smoking. It's too sapping on my energy, and I can't do it anymore.
On the patch, I've cut my smoking roughly in half in 4 days
Cherrs Ladies
Stephanie
Wow gurl, incredible:)
Stephanie
It is official I am on HRT. This is a day I thought would never come. I thought I was going to have a bunch of hurdles I had to cross, as soon as I would come upon a hurdle it would fall away with out stopping me. I am floating on cloud 9.
So today I got a gym membership and worked out for the first time in a long time. Realized just how out of shape I am. But my counselor used to be a fitness trainer and says he's gonna work with me to design a workout I can do that will help me get a more masculine body shape. I'm finally taking the first step to making my body less feminine, while getting into a more healthy lifestyle at the same time. I'm excited, because if I can build some muscle and get rid of some of the more prominent curves I have in a natural way, it will be so much easier to go through the surgery to remove my breasts completely. I still haven't decided if I want HRT yet, it has it's benefits and it's downfalls, but if I can get the same effects naturally without the negatives of HRT then I'm gonna try. The biggest things that I want but won't be able to get with working out is a deeper voice and an end to my menstrual cycle, that I would need HRT for, but I'll decide how to deal with that when I reach that crossroads. For now, I'm just excited that I made some progress today by getting a gym membership. Just gotta use it now.
Today was difficult. I hadn’t seen a dear friend for many months. She lived in New Mexico and recently returned to Charleston.
I had told her about my being transgender almost a year ago and our contact since has been painfully limited. I knew we were on fragile ground when she moved back home and didn’t call me.
After all this time, we finally got together. As we caught up, I realized that as long as we didn’t talk about me being transgender, everything would be okay. But it felt like if I moved the conversation in that direction, what was left of our relationship would quickly disappear.
Sadly, she is one of a very few people with whom I have shared my truth. I so hoped she would understand and accept me. Her initial reaction wasn’t good. But she is intelligent and I thought she would do some research and, with that as a starting point, she would become a strong support.
Eh...I guess it is never easy.
Dawn
Dawn, perhaps you could offer her some literature to read? Maybe she doesn't know where to start. Any research needs to find that starting point.
Hugs, Cloe
