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How Far Along Are You


Guest Joanna Phipps

How far  

59 members have voted

  1. 1. are you:

    • Looking for information to inform your choice
      4
    • just beginning your journey
      20
    • just starting RLE
      3
    • Just starting HRT
      12
    • Well into both HRT and RLE
      12
    • Coasting waiting for all the details of SRS to be resolved
      7


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Guest Joanna Phipps

I thought it might be fun to see where everyone is in their journey, if the poll doesn't apply to you then simply comment on your journey.

I am in that stage where 90% of the work has been done, I live and work full time in my correct gender. I have yet to change my name but there are good reasons for that so its name and srs and thats it. I no longer consider myself transsexual, I am a woman and thats all there is to it. I pass probably as well as I am ever going to, 90%+  so I stay to offer advice to those who come behind me.

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Hi Joanna,

What a fantastic idea for a post ,,,,,I NEED TO VENT :banghead: ,,,,,, so thanks .

Finished with my GT monnnnnths ago and seemingly I am sane so the gentleman signed

me off ,,,,,,to where ????????, I dont get to an endo till next May which means I wont

get my T blockers or Estrogen till late this freakin year ,,,I AM NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER!!.

The only good thing coming outa this is my electro wont be as painful <<re no estro..

So , hun ,,long story short,,,,,waitwaitwaitwait :banghead: thanks again, feel better now, viv :)

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I'm well into RLE (2.5 years of stealth/near-stealth). 3 months HRT -- that's not really just starting any more, but it's not really well into. I've been trying to save money for top surgery for awhile now.

I sort of skipped a bunch of steps though, because I went straight from being completely in the closet except to immediate family to being almost completely stealth.

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Guest SamIThinkIAm

Somewhere between figuring out where I'm at/what's best for me and just starting my journey. I sincerely wish I was able to afford a gender therapist and the whole bit but that's not going to happen anytime soon so I'll just have to explore this path on my own--and wait a while before I start transitioning if I do that.

Have to say though--I've started wearing male clothing etc. full time and going by Sam as often as I can considering it's not my legal name--AND I FEEL AMAZING---so something tells me I'm on the right track.

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Guest Donna Jean

Well......

Finished with my GT....

Got my HRT letter...

Got my "Carry Letter"....

Got my "Surgery Letter" and an accepted by my Dr. In Thailand...

11 months on HRT

40 hours electrolysis....

Living 90% full time...(Just not officially out at work, but, that's become really close..My therapist wants me to change slowly in front of my co workers)

95% of "His" clothes gone to Goodwill...

Closet full of "My" clothes...

Called Ma'am 80% of the time when I'm out and about.....(and I go out neutral)

Acceptance from many friends....

I have to say that a year ago I never would of guessed that I'd be this far along...I also have to say that I'm pretty dang happy about it!

HUGGS!

Donna Jean

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Guest Michele H

I wish you had included a post op option - I would really like to see how many post ops are out there. As for me - RLE 1.5 years, HRT one year - I went full time before starting HRT - had my name legally changed last April - including gender on drivers license. I am scheduled for SRS 28 May - IF I can get my weight down. Dr McGinn insists on that! I would love to talk to some post ops - to be honest, I'm a bit scared . I will be 64 2 months after surgery, do not have a partner, have no libido, have no expectation that I will ever find a lesbian partner and really trying to determine if the surgery will improve my quality of life. I'm a woman, the surgery just corrects a birth defect - but the surgery will also require me to dialate for the rest of my life. Please, if there are any post ops out there - what is the day to day post op reality like?

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Guest DisDwarf

looking for info... well for now im just a strange "male" who paints "his" nails and wears women's bags lol... letting my hair grow... maybe somewhat genderqueer haha. if someone asks i just say i dont believe in gender roles etc, which is true but not the only motivation.

recently found a therapist in my area who discusses LGBT issues. I'll wait a bit to have some more money and then I'll call her.

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Guest NatalieRene

I'm on my 6th day of hrt so I've only just started and I've had three full laser sessions and two maintenance laser sessions for removing my facial hair.

I'm not yet to the point where I feel comfortable going out as me yet because I don't pass yet and I live around a bunch of hispanic ex-marine types. My plan is to go full time this summer. Then next Summer God willing get srs and ffs as needed and close this chapter on my life, lock the book shut and throw away the key.

In 2012 I'm more then likely going to sell my townhouse and move to a nicer place where people won't remember me as a guy that became a woman and will just see me for me.

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Guest Chris_421

I'd like to think I'm about 75% there. Coming up on 2 years on testosterone and over 2 years for living as a male.

Currently in the process of getting assessed for a hysterectomy for coverage....soon to follow will be changing my sex marker and top surgery. That's about all at this current time that I'm looking for.

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Well, I'm full time, but I don't really consider that to be an accomplishment (or anything official) until classes start (tuesday).

Im 4.5 months into HRT, so I don't know that that would qualify as "well into", but its not quite just beginning either.

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Guest julia_d

rle completed 2004 .. name changed 2001 .. fully integrated 100% female (except for surgery and I'm not in anything like the right state of mind to think about how and why that was DELIBERATELY messed up by a religious bigot of a doctor) then abused by an uncaring system and financial circumstances.. Just found out it will be another 18 months minimum before I can even apply to go home with my husband.. pass the pills, stop the bus.. I want to get off.

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Guest Joanna Phipps
Where's the post-op option?

35+ years post-op, fully integrated a long long time ago.

My appologies, forgot to add it (my bad), maybe one of our magic admins could edit the poll for us.

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Guest Donna Jean
About to start electrolysis in the down south region so I will be ready for SRS in December.

*puts fingers in ears*

I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna....... I don't wanna know........

Donna Jean

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Guest Joanna Phipps
*puts fingers in ears*

I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna....... I don't wanna know........

Donna Jean

Thats a project for north of the border for me, along with clearing what's left of my beard

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Guest i is Sam :-)
About to start electrolysis in the down south region so I will be ready for SRS in December.
*puts fingers in ears*

I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna know....I don't wanna....... I don't wanna know........

Donna Jean

Dr Suporn doesn't require this, which is one of the key factors swaying me that way when the time comes. I don't know if the other big Thai surgeons use the same method.

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Guest AshleyRF
Dr Suporn doesn't require this, which is one of the key factors swaying me that way when the time comes. I don't know if the other big Thai surgeons use the same method.

I don't think any of the "require" it but they usually recommend it and I'm not taking any chances with my vagina.

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Electrolysis in the down south region??? Oooohhhhhhh, nasty, you poor girls!!! :o

I voted for "Just beginning the journey". I'm out to close friends and family and in therapy and dress/cut my hair en homme (but still tend to just look like a very butch woman) and bind, but very much early days regarding actually talking to people/doing something proper about it.

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