Share your experiences of progressing towards full-time

[MsDazzler]

I started transitioning last year, and a year later, I m still not full time. However I have taken steps, such as coming out to my close friends as a transgender woman instead of being a gay man as I mistakenly thought. I ventured out dressed in public during daylight few times. I went shopping dressed... Today I finally went to class and the cafeteria on campus dressed. So far it has been positive.

What steps did you take yourself?

[Ecstatic]

MsDazzler, it's great to hear about you and Angela and others making the transition and what your experiences as like as you do. I think it's wonderful to see someone unfold as the person they long to be and feel inside. It's hard for me to believe you're not full time, gauging by your photos.

[Angela_Deren]

First started going out at night in December (only been out during the day a couple times) I told my mom in January and just started telling friends last month. Started therapy this week. Have just been taking an anti-androgen since May for now (plan to start HRT early next year). Just started really working on voice and calling for a laser hair removal consiltation very soon. My hair has been growing since December, my eyebrows are plucked thin, and I'm told that I have a definate femine look to me even though I'm not full time yet :( I just couldn't conceive going full time until I graduate in May, but am doing everything I can to make the transition go smoother when I do. Living with 3 guys who I don't know and don't seem too "trans-friendly" sucks. Actually just met 2 people who contacted me from online, met them, and was happy to hear that I look very much like my pic, lol.

[KaMiLeUnGuRl]

this thing working?

[veronicapixie86]

__________________________________________________ _________:+Life,......in the beginning has been a trial,....filled with regrest's failures,...losts,...and depression+::_ -::First Off,.....For whom it may concern ""I'm a CrossDresser w/vison of Gender Changing"",...For any of those who have trouble understanding,....I've been a guy for about 19 yrs w/ the name of ""+:JOEL Ephriam:+""((which means in hebrew out of sorrow ""God"" has given me joy)). For yrs, I have lived in the male world,....and done as they do. Now,...however I have taken the liberty of beginning a whole new life in the form of a girl named ""Veronica"" dedicated to the death of my long lost sister +::Sarah Strieter::+. I However have the unique vison of starting new and fresh in a world that is not always so Excepting nor Loving. Crossdress/Gender Changing(becoming a ""Transvestite"") means to::***(dress as the opposite sex+ Transvestite is to become and live as a "GIRL" dressing,...acting, looking,..loving and embracing a unique+newly found life style)***.. Well,....this is what I dremt of since an early age. Although not always so simple growing up in a ""Christian Bible Belted Lifestyle"" for 19 yrs of my life,...it has always been somthing that has made me alive,....free,..and comfterbale with myself. For yrs,...I have hid in shame,...guilt,...oppression deciet and loathing stages. Now However due to previous Circumstances,...I have kindled a flame inside and have begun to grow the wings to fly and ""SOAR"" in a freedom ""few"" only have dreamt to experince. Life seems so much simpler when U are who u belive u are,...((""Quite the Contrary"")). Being male for the first yrs of my life has been amazing,...and filled with Radical times,.....but ""It""just could not compare to the Liberty or Authenticity of the genuine love,...care free spirit and embrace that the ""Female World"" can provide ""Not to Mean that it is not geniune vise versa,..but to say it's who""I AM"". Getting into the whole mix of the feminine world has been a "Great" challenge and filled with Hard knocks,...Oppostion, and dramatic ridicule ((that will continue)); but if the world were to end on any given day,...I'd say it would be safe for me to be who I love to be ""Woman"". I have taken the Liberty of beginning to ""ERASE"" all past knowledge of birth gender and past,....Now I Live to face a new and brighter day,...ready to live the Adventure .

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******::For those Of ''"you"" who it may concern I have left My World Old things have passed Away,....The New Has COME,......and I AM finally FrEE t/2/o Be ME::******

__________________________________________________ __________::+Life,......in the beginning has been a trial,....filled with regrest's failures,...losts,...and depression+::_ -::First Off,.....For whom it may concern ""I'm a CrossDresser w/vison of Gender Changing"",...For any of those who have trouble understanding,....I've been a guy for about 19 yrs w/ the name of ""+:JOEL Ephriam:+""((which means in hebrew out of sorrow ""God"" has given me joy)). For yrs, I have lived in the male world,....and done as they do. Now,...however I have taken the liberty of beginning a whole new life in the form of a girl named ""Veronica"" dedicated to the death of my long lost sister +::Sarah Strieter::+. This does not mean I am gay,....nor bi or anything of the sort,....(""which is very common with other CD's and Transvestites""(((***men whom have had changes to become there true selves""WOMAN""***)))...""). I However have the unique vison of starting new and fresh in a world that is not always so Excepting nor Loving. Crossdress/Gender Changing(becoming a ""Transvestite"") means to::***(dress as the opposite sex+ Transvestite is to become and live as a "GIRL" dressing,...acting, looking,..loving and embracing a unique+newly found life style)***.. Well,....this is what I dremt of since an early age. Although not always so simple growing up in a ""Christian Bible Belted Lifestyle"" for 19 yrs of my life,...it has always been somthing that has made me alive,....free,..and comfterbale with myself. For yrs,...I have hid in shame,...guilt,...oppression deciet and loathing stages. Now However due to previous Circumstances,...I have kindled a flame inside and have begun to grow the wings to fly and ""SOAR"" in a freedom ""few"" only have dreamt to experince. Life seems so much simpler when U are who u belive u are,...((""Quite the Contrary"")). Being male for the first yrs of my life has been amazing,...and filled with Radical times,.....but ""It""just could not compare to the Liberty or Authenticity of the genuine love,...care free spirit and embrace that the ""Female World"" can provide ""Not to Mean that it is not geniune vise versa,..but to say it's who""I AM"". Getting into the whole mix of the feminine world has been a "Great" challenge and filled with Hard knocks,...Oppostion, and dramatic ridicule ((that will continue)); but if the world were to end on any given day,...I'd say it would be safe for me to be who I love to be ""Woman"". I have taken the Liberty of beginning to ""ERASE"" all past knowledge of birth gender and past,....Now I Live to face a new and brighter day,...ready to live the Adventure .

P.s.:: If Any Of you can give pointers,....helpful inisight or thoughts please feel free to help,..........As I could use as much ASP....***tHANx :lol: ***

Veronica Strieter
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[MsDazzler]

MsDazzler, it's great to hear about you and Angela and others making the transition and what your experiences as like as you do. I think it's wonderful to see someone unfold as the person they long to be and feel inside. It's hard for me to believe you're not full time, gauging by your photos.

Aww thank you... but I still live a dual existence as a man and a woman... Because I realized my transition last year, my junior year... so I couldnt transition suddenly... I attend a private university where it s small and everyone knows each other (1600 people).. So... I m intending on going full time after graduating, which is May 2006.

[Ecstatic]

2006 used to seem such a long ways off--and probably does to you, MsD--but it's really only, what, 8 months away? We ought to hold a coming out party for you!

And welcome to the forum, Veronica!

[Angela_Deren]

Aww thank you... but I still live a dual existence as a man and a woman... Because I realized my transition last year, my junior year... so I couldnt transition suddenly... I attend a private university where it s small and everyone knows each other (1600 people).. So... I m intending on going full time after graduating, which is May 2006.

We have much in common, lol :)

[roseofsapphire]

Aww thank you... but I still live a dual existence as a man and a woman... Because I realized my transition last year, my junior year... so I couldnt transition suddenly... I attend a private university where it s small and everyone knows each other (1600 people).. So... I m intending on going full time after graduating, which is May 2006.

We have much in common, lol :)

Same here as well...

[MsDazzler]

Kamile, damn!!!!!!!!! you sound like you are on a rocky road!

i was already full time in the begining never had any prob...lucky enough for me...but i had to wear more foundation than ever just to look more feme

[KaMiLeUnGuRl]

Yeppers dazzler

[MsDazzler]

I just tweezed all of my hair off my upper lip... OUCH OUCH I cried some

[MsDazzler]

Pre op or post op TS, please share some of your experiences.... I know it may be boring but it would be helpful to your fellow sisters...