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[Guest Dorothy Lynne]

Hello to all: I'm a born male transitioning to my new female self and if I may say myself "about time!" After many years of masking and the inevitable self loathing we all go through I decided to live the life I was destined for. At a late age of about fifty I came to the realization it was time to do what was natural and defeat the guilty feelings and surpressing my inner most thoughts. I am sure we all have experienced that turmoil in our daily lives. I live in an area that is populated sparsely with other transgendered people and local support groups have a handful of like individuals, the few meetings I have attended have the same people regardless of the organization sponsoring the meeting.

I am a sales representative for a major company and travel ALOT around the country so it allows me a view on other states and meeting people across the spectrum of social levels. I enjoy meeting people and I think this has allowed me to finally be myself strangely enough. Brought up catholic and to a military family needless to say was the source of supressing my innermost feelings. I have two older sisters and have to admit the closeness we enjoyed may have contributed to my orientation but don't feel overly sure of this. I was married for about 5 years till I lost my wife in a car accident. I was a Naval aviator for almost 16 years and during that period never allowed myself to think about my sexual orientation (old school different era). My early years in high school and grade school involved crossdressing when I could, my earliest crossddressing memory was pre kindergarden . In recent years I began crossdressing in ernest and the inner feelings of how natural it felt finally dawned on me. I not only didn't see the forest for the trees, I missed the lake , mountains and sky above.

I started my transition by self medicating hormones till I could find an endocrinologyst in my area who then got me in contact with a therapist. Backwards, I know. I am planning a few surgeries for cosmetic reasons and to be rid of my testes. I have mapped out a program of two years with my doctors to total transition and have NEVER been happier. Dorothy

[Guest KarenLyn]

Hi and welcome to Laura's! If you haven't already done it, please read the terms and conditions. The link is at the bottom of the page.

There are a lot of us who've begun our transitions later in life so you're in good company.

Again, welcome!

Karen

[MaryEllen]

Hello Dorothy,

Welcome to Laura's Playground.

MaryEllen

[Guest JeepGirl90]

Hello Dorothy, Welcome to Laura's!

-Christina

[Guest miss kindheart]

Hi Dorthy,

<<< hug >>>

Welcome to Laura's Playground.

Please feel free to come over and chat sometime.

The Chat room does require another registration that is separate from from your forums one.

Please read the chat room rules before coming in, and expect a short interview with one of the chat room moderators.

One of the things that they will ask you is if you read the rules.

We all look forward to seeing you.

vanna

[Carolyn Marie]

Welcome to the Playground, Dorothy. It's nice to meet you.

I'm glad to hear that you are done with self medicating and are on a good path forward. The safety of our members is our highest priority here. Please look around the forums and post in any thread that interests you, or start your own thread. We'll do our best to provide honest answers.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[gennee]

Hi Dorothy and welcome to Laura's. I can feel your good vibes when I read your introduction. I'm so

hapy that you are taking toward transitioning. I came out as transgender at age fifty-six. I'm 64 now.

Like you, I have never been happier.

[Guest Dorothy Lynne]

Ruthenium: My only regret is not doing something with my life earlier. So much time wasted when I could have been happier and living the life I was meant to live.

[Charlize]

Dorothy, thanks for sharing and welcome to Laura's. i once was also upset that i didn't find my path earlier but have grown to acept that he was not such a bad character and have grown fond of him as i see him in the rear view mirror. things could have been different but only a higher power knows for the better or worse. I'm a bit of a late bloomer as well. I lived 64 years as him and am approaching 65 as an adolesent female with HRT giving me the wonders of my own body being what i always wanted.

Hope to see you around the playground.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest Guest_]

Hi Dorothy and welcome. Go for the life you want. Love Amber L.