how long have you been transitioning?

[Deleted]

Just curious about when you started therapy, hormones or surgery.

Hit the wall November 2012, therapy January 2013, hormones may 25, 2013.  No surgery planned.

Full hormonal mtf transition.  Presentations remain fluid.

Curious about it all...I think our range is cool.  And a no op no hormone transition to me means when you accepted yourself as trans...

Blessings

Trinity

[Patty]

Since I was around 18 and moved out on my own.At the time I did not realize it or even accept it and had no clue even what to call my feelings.But my core knew I was different and really demanded that I recognize it, I tried burying what I felt and never really succeeded, it only led to more fear and anxiety .That on top of PTSD really screwed up most of my emotional life and caused me to deal with emotions as anger to survive. My melting down completely on 2/18/2013 led me in a new direction of self discovery and acceptance and opened my world to beauty and emotions I had never let myself feel before.Healing my body,soul and mind and blending them and both sides of me into one complete caring,loving individual.In reality I have been transitioning all my life and was just to blind to see it. Patty

[Edge]

I started transitioning socially and bought a binder almost three years ago. Wow. Times flies.

[bhhfmm]

March of '04 started hrt, went to a few therapy sessions a year later, then went fulltime in early '06. Haven't had any surgeries, although I almost went ahead with srs, but circumstances with my dad being ill put that off and so far haven't had the money again to get it done, so who knows, I've mostly accepted that I'll likely never be able to get it done and that'd be ok I suppose.

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Dec 26, 2014 5:30:11 GMT 8 bhhfmm said:

March of '04 started hrt, went to a few therapy sessions a year later, then went fulltime in early '06. Haven't had any surgeries, although I almost went ahead with srs, but circumstances with my dad being ill put that off and so far haven't had the money again to get it done, so who knows, I've mostly accepted that I'll likely never be able to get it done and that'd be ok I suppose.


You look incredibly terrific.  Your face is amazing dear, a real beauty.

[EchelonHunt]

I came out as transgender when I was 18 in 2007, though I had been suffering from dysphoria earlier than that. From there, I began transitioning by taking many therapy sessions until 2011, 4 years ago, I was given the green light for HRT. I am pre-surgery at this point but hope to have top surgery mid-2015 and bottom surgery in late 2016/17. If it comes to having bottom surgery in 2017. that will mark a decade of transitioning and at that point, it would be completed. If it does hit the ten year mark, I will be able to say it was the most adventurous, fulfilling, frustrating and the most I've learned about myself decade I had to endure but overall, it will steel me for many more decades to come, hopefully with less frustration and more happiness. Dysphoria is a b*tch and it would be wonderful to finally be free of its grip.

[Deleted]

I started on light dose HRT back in 1994 and by 96 was on full dose and continued to present 100% male for several years. Had an orchiectomy around 2006-07 somewhere, had a meltdown mostly PTSD related and partly a WTF am I doing moment which lasted for almost two years sans any hormones, tried injectable T during that time and hated it and finally got my act back together and want back on full female HRT and have been presenting mixed gender non binary ever since.

[Sarah]

Therapy in 2010 (I was 26). HRT(26)/FFS(27) in 2011. SRS(27) in 2012.

I guess arguably I started therapy when I was 18... but it's complicated.

[Kelly]

I came out to myself in July 2010.. And started to come out to the world right from the start. Started therapy in September 2010, hormones in March/April 2011. Had my final session with my gender therapist in September 2014 - almost 4 years to the day that I first saw him. My transition probably ended sometime in late 2012.

[TessaJames]

Like so many, I new as a child that I was different.  I came out in the 80's as bisexual or queer as I could not deny my behavior.  Sadly I could deny and repress my feelings and thoughts.  I saw two psychologists then who said I was probably gay and denying it.  Transgender did not seem to be on anyones radar then.  I lived a fairly androgynous life with long hair and a female dominated profession as a CRNA or nurse anesthetist.  I began limited cross dressing in private and my lifelong marriage partner knew everything.  I made a weak transition attempt back in the 90s with herbs and such.  I found little info or support and felt humiliated by that failure.  I guess my coping skills finally gave up back in 2012 and my wife helped me get into counseling.  That was preceded by the two of us attending a presentation about transgender people for a local diversity group.  The presenter consider themselves to be agender and non binary.  It blew me away and I was agitated and left early.  That binary formula was one aspect of being transgender that did not fit me and I concluded for too long that I must not really be trans but just f'd up.  Knowing there was a way to transition without claiming to always having been a woman was huge for me.  I like the term girl as it captures my sense of growing and having a second puberty without the defined end game.

Once I was able to accept myself the flood gates stayed wide open.  my initial thoughts and declarations of being able to "stop this" quickly dissolved as I was unable and unwilling to let anything stop me this time.  A started full time two years ago today and got going with HRT on March 13, 2013.  I am trying to get coverage for an orchiectomy but undecided about my need or the efficacy of GRS.  Being one with limited passability I accepted my transition in public in a small town rural area would be challenging and I would use this notoriety to educate and for activism.  What I could not know was how rewarding and happy I would feel about the changes.  I wore a smile constantly for 8 months and i'm only just beginning to feel like life does not have to be all about trans 24/7;-) 

As those Grateful Dead guys knew, it is a long, strange trip!

[Deleted]

I started on 11-21-14. It feels like it's moving along at a snail's speed. I know that passing
isn't the top priority for transitioning, but it's extremely important to me. I'm sure it is
for most of us. I hate going out anywhere right now, because every time someone calls
me "sir", and I have to answer to it. Before transition it wasn't as big of a deal, but it
still stung. Now, I'm in a new state of mind, so wrong pronouns dig at me like a rusty
blade. I sometimes feel like I'm not going to get through this, but I'm trying to be a
lot more patient. I know it takes time.

It also takes a lot of money which I do not have. I need electrolysis so bad, but I have
no way of saving for it. I live on SSI, and most of it goes to rent, bills, petrol, and other
necessities. My face just isn't there yet to even bother with make-up, and I have this
receding hairline that gives me as much dysphoria as the facial hair. I really wish I
could just go to sleep for a couple of years and wake up with everything as it should
be.

I have plenty of supportive friends and family, and I'm so very grateful for them. I
wish one or two of them were a bit more active with me, though, because I feel like
I'm doing this alone; not figuratively, but literally. I would really like to be at a place
at least a year from now where I can go out and at least get some confusing looks
instead of just an immediate "sir". Blah..

[LivingTheDream]

Hehe, cool. We started hrt same month and are about same age too

In some ways, feels like things are going at a snails pace for me too, in other ways, sometimes feels like things are going super fast. Hrt changes, laser, voice work, all going slow, but all going forward as well, so add em all up seems fast. Idk. Its like, I don't even wanna go out guy mode anymore either. Comparing my mindset with that to just a few years ago is night and day lol.

But ya, like you, being passable is a huge thing for me, so am I guess trying to take it slow, baby step my way along.