Hello

Hi Emily. Great to meet you on here, I am pretty new too. Hope you are well.

Hugs, Wendy xx

I am great and thanks for your friendship.

Hi! I'm a lady from across the pond in the uk and I wanted to thank you for your profile which I found very moving! I recognise so much in myself and my life: though less  courage than you possibly! Music is also my passion: it seems to be for quite a few of us ( someone did an intersting thread on it a couple of years ago). I've been on hrt for 9months now, and am anyways up for a chat!

Welcome and best wishes, 

Thea xx

Thea, Thank you for your very kind words and I have not began the HRT yet as the clinic I am dealing with is taking their dear sweet time. I guess the saying, good things come to those who wait, is true. What they don't realize is I have been waiting all my life for that good thing to come. I have always been feminine in mind and when I wanted to turn it on over the boy act, girl could I. As soon as I began dressing feminine a few months ago (about 95%, still not all the out to everyone and must be careful around rednecks and bible thumpers cause you know their God say I am from the devil) lol, the woman has really came out very strong, I cannot wait till I see the effect of hormones on me cause I think it will feel amazing.

Yes, lets be friends, and I am always here for a friend. I love you sister and thank you for reaching out. 

Please tell me what your experience is with the HRT. I am like a school girl waiting for someone to ask me to the prom.

Hugs, Emily Eve

Nice to have you here. I TRULY"lucked-out" with this clinic in my S. Calif. area....the L.A. LBGT Center... which pretty much "streamlined" everything. Pretty quickly they got me on E and P, along with a substantial amount of counseling. Then, three years later, I was onto consultation with a couple of surgeons. I'd been very impatient, but--looking back--I've come to see that it's probably wise to have gone through a several year's process (and not rush it).

I guess I might add... that when you get to that point (if this is part of YOUR agenda), to do some research (and plenty of reflection) about whatever procedure involved, and see if the surgeon and you are "on the same page." I didn't feel 100% happy with the first surgical consult I had...and blessedly...I had the good sense to do some more research (and, yes, reflection), and I ended up with a guy who I consider very competent, but also sensitive to MY needs...and basically a GENIUS!!

I must say that I'm irked at the delay (or ?) about facial surgical work,* but I DID get my full boobs one year ago...about which I've been feeling "over the moon." They feel like me and natural (and "perfect")!! Every once in awhile--during dressing-- I'll glance in a mirror...and go, "My GOD, is that ME?!! WHEW!!" Looking back, getting the surgery was like receiving the BEST birthday gift I've EVER received (kind've RIDICULOUSLY special)!!

I'm mostly still "presenting" as male..."out in the world, " but I'm looking forward to "new changes," as I go along. Hope this was not too verbose (or sounding nutty). Blessings to EVERYONE here!!!   

* The endocrinologist opined that--at my age (and with my Hx)--"prolonged procedures" might pose too much of a stroke risk. DAMN!!

I am sending positive thoughts and energy your way sister. May I ask your age? Woman to woman?

Mid-seventies, Hon (tho I feel about forty or fifty (pretty young, yet with some experience and maturity...and having transcended a LOT of physical and emotional disability)!! You know the whole area of gender can be a little nutty (as part of the largely insane (and complicated) "human experience"), but MANY of us have felt unhappy either with our birth-gender (or with being EXCLUSIVELY our birth-gender). May I assume you know that Dr. Jung taught that EVERY human being has both "male" & female" aspects or "sides?"

I consider it ironic that I felt female (in many ways) in my early teens, but "living in the material world" (which can be very "unkind"... even brutal*), kind've forced me to excel in some "male-type" things, such as auto and electronic repair, some exercise (like running and some work with weights), and work in broadcasting (and in developing my voice)(and becom-ing a D.C./"Holistic Practitioner")...which was probably valuable for me. Yet, lately, I've--you might say--come to a realization that I REALLY wanted to more fully express my "female side," and the whole process (mostly at the center I mentioned, but also at a regular medical clinic two blocks from my home), has felt very validating and natural (which, you know, can feel pretty exciting!!)

Not that bad treatment only occurs in childhood. Around 1998, I was working in a clerical position at a Los Angeles community college (in "admin"). The immediate job duties were fine, and the pay was all right, but I soon found that the "corporate" atmosphere was abysmal (manipulative, demeaning, and highly toxic)!!!