It bothers me that I don't have to try at all to be seen as a male, but if I want to be seen as a female, I have to spend at least 30 minutes to an hour getting ready to maybe be seen as a girl. Kinda sad.
TS is www.trueselves.com. It's a forum for trans people, generation X and younger. It was set up and run by kathygnome.
FFS is a viable option, if you think you need it. Everyone's different, and some people (myself included) look into FFS. I had FFS in '06 with Dr. Zukowski. I thought I was completely unpresentable as female prior to it, despite having been on hrt for 3 years at that point.
I still have almost no breast development 8.5 year into hrt. They're more like moobs than boobs.
But, yeah, being in school is possibly the best way to get the money for FFS, if it's the route you want to take. For a bunch of semesters I took out the maximum school loans I could and used most of the money as savings for FFS (which was $19k).
As for FFS, I don't know if I will get it. Probably couldn't hurt. Perhaps I will need it to help me longterm, but I am sure alot of my problems stem from poor self esteem and poor body image.
As of now, I would say parts of my transition that relate to coming out and such have gone relatively well so far. On the other hand, I am dissatsified (putting it lightly) with my appearance and disappointed with HRT so far. I still have to come out to my parents (probably this week), but most of my issues stem in my physical appearance.
I welcome the day I am first seen as a female no matter how I present myself. The things that I do hear about my appearance, can't recall any specific examples of how I should like my appearance other than my friends Nicole and Yumi trying to reassure me. Not that I expect to look like a model or anything. I just want to be seen as someone where it is not implied I need to change something major to appear more like a female (I had past posts about some things I hear, and Monday night one of my friends tried to politely say that FFS is not a bad idea for me based on my face)
I hope you are right, but there are zero guarantees. I may have to accept that I will always have to try hard to be perceived as a female. I wish and hope that it may not be true, but I have to prepare myself for disappointment again just in case.
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but yeah, i agree with this. i myself am waiting for boymode fail before i start doing too much presentation work.
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TS is www.trueselves.com. It's a forum for trans people, generation X and younger. It was set up and run by kathygnome.
FFS is a viable option, if you think you need it. Everyone's different, and some people (myself included) look into FFS. I had FFS in '06 with Dr. Zukowski. I thought I was completely unpresentable as female prior to it, despite having been on hrt for 3 years at that point.
I still have almost no breast development 8.5 year into hrt. They're more like moobs than boobs.
But, yeah, being in school is possibly the best way to get the money for FFS, if it's the route you want to take. For a bunch of semesters I took out the maximum school loans I could and used most of the money as savings for FFS (which was $19k).
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As for FFS, I don't know if I will get it. Probably couldn't hurt. Perhaps I will need it to help me longterm, but I am sure alot of my problems stem from poor self esteem and poor body image.
As of now, I would say parts of my transition that relate to coming out and such have gone relatively well so far. On the other hand, I am dissatsified (putting it lightly) with my appearance and disappointed with HRT so far. I still have to come out to my parents (probably this week), but most of my issues stem in my physical appearance.
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