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trans2009-09-17 05:14 pm
vampire-muse.livejournal.com) wrote in trans2009-09-17 05:14 pm
Where to Go From Here?
It has been a long time since I posted on this community, but since then, I have attended some therapy for about 2 years with mixed results and mixed messages. The main conclusion I got from my counsellors was that I needed to get more involved in the community to gauge "where I am at" and get a sense if being transgender is truly who I am. So... following that advice, I joined the college gay-straight alliance more inclusively called Spectrum (reflecting that all persons somehow fit in a wide spectrum of orientation and identity, etc.) and I have met many great friends and so on. My self-awareness has developed to where I know for certain who I am inside and that I just naturally lean towards a feminine identity or definition of self than masculine.
My goal is to be myself, in this case, feminine and female over the male that just doesn't click in my head and the way I feel I am as a human being. My goal is to hopefully improve my appearence to better reflect the person I am on the inside. My counsellors had not really offered much in the way of counsel or advice in this department and haven't really given me too much in the way of information regarding various options of transition either.
My own research has proved fruitful for the most part, but I am generally discouraged by the costs and hoops one must go through to transition. For now, I am trying to see and experiment with ways of improving my overall appearence as female without going nuts and breaking my bank or commiting to hormone therapies at this point. I would like to get in touch with specialists and therapists with experience in transgender issues, but I have no insurance. I want to experiment with clothes and possibly make-up, wigs, etc. But I find myself wondering how to transition gradually and discreetly and on a tight budget.
Being 34, with some male pattern baldness, and very slender frame (no hips or butt) I feel more discouraged. And because I am on a college campus that could be somewhat transphobic and homophobic, I am not sure to what degree I should attempt some form of transition. So... where do I go from here?
Rachel
My goal is to be myself, in this case, feminine and female over the male that just doesn't click in my head and the way I feel I am as a human being. My goal is to hopefully improve my appearence to better reflect the person I am on the inside. My counsellors had not really offered much in the way of counsel or advice in this department and haven't really given me too much in the way of information regarding various options of transition either.
My own research has proved fruitful for the most part, but I am generally discouraged by the costs and hoops one must go through to transition. For now, I am trying to see and experiment with ways of improving my overall appearence as female without going nuts and breaking my bank or commiting to hormone therapies at this point. I would like to get in touch with specialists and therapists with experience in transgender issues, but I have no insurance. I want to experiment with clothes and possibly make-up, wigs, etc. But I find myself wondering how to transition gradually and discreetly and on a tight budget.
Being 34, with some male pattern baldness, and very slender frame (no hips or butt) I feel more discouraged. And because I am on a college campus that could be somewhat transphobic and homophobic, I am not sure to what degree I should attempt some form of transition. So... where do I go from here?
Rachel