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I made my fist appointment with my Psychologist! It'll be May 8th, but I'm a little nervous about cost as I am 21 years old working in retail lol. Its $130 per 50 minute session. I thought the Alberta government covered it but apparently its just for psychiatrists, and there aren't any working in the Calgary area with experience in GID. But I figure the cost is worth it. I'm finally taking the first step in working towards being who I need to be. I was going to go to school this year, but I think I'm actually going to postpone it a year. I want to be able to focus on my schooling, so I want to be well in to my hormones before I start. I want to be a young woman attending college, not a young man attending college lol. I don't want the distraction of adjusting to new hormones in my body or whether or not I'm passing 100% and still try and be a competitive student.

How many other people chose to put off their education/career until they began their physical transition? I'm not too worried about having done so, because the course is only a two year course (travel and tourism at SAIT here in Calgary) and I'll still graduate from it and establish my career at 24. I also figure that if I'm well in to my transition by the time I graduate the course, I might have better luck getting jobs seeing as I usually have difficulty getting hired in my present state.