Example letters for HRT referral?

[geekgirlsarah.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone! I'm going to be starting HRT this month, and my counselor has agreed to write a letter of referral for me, to follow the Benjamin Standards. I'm her first trans patient, though, and we're not exactly sure what she should be putting in the letter. tsroadmap doesn't seem to have much information on that, nor do other sites like tssupport.org...

So, does anyone know where I can get some example letters so that we can be sure that my counselor's letter includes the right buzz words to satisfy anyone who I may show it to later? It'd help me out a lot!

Thanks!

decided to cross post from my journal, enjoy.

[bibunny.livejournal.com]

Most the time I don't get girly cuz I'm a lazy, lazy person at heart. I've never like facial hair but what can you do. except spend money. Thats not the topic of this post. I had one of those urges to throw on some of my new cute clothes, so here I sit, showered and with my cute pink top and a long slinky black skirt. I look down and you know what I see. CLEAVAGE, that makes me sooo happy. I wonder how I'll look after 4 months on hormones. I'ts gotten a lot easier to tuck, just keeping those eggs up in the nest (lol just made that part up right now) can be the hard part, Its funny, I'll get one that will stay and the other just doesn't want to sit right, but after sitting for a while it stays. I should really get some tape lol. My hair is past my shoulders again. (was down to my nipples before I cut it last time.) And all the blonde bits that grew out are now purple. I love it. I can tell I have a cry in me thats just floating around, sometimes I'll get the feeling then it disapears back under the surface. Since I've gone on (and stayed on this time) hormones my face has cleared up a lot, and even shaving seems to get more. oddness. I got that dermablend stuff on ebay to try it, and damn it works good. I'm down from 175 to 166 and dropping. I hope to get back down to 150 atleast. it'd be nice to get back down to what I was a couple years ago (135). I already had some curves to start with, even not on hormones, but now they're getting more defined. I just have been feeling really good about myself. Its a change. I wish I could find another tgirl to cuddle with. My friend is in my bio class and he's one of my 2 lab partners, I wish he wasn't taken cuz I've been getting some wantings towards him. I like people who can make me laugh, and with him its hard to keep it under control during class. I spent an hour looking at a poster with fish cuz I couldn't look at him without almost cracking up. The only person I'm completely comfortable around is one of my female friends, she's also an exgf. A few people at work know I'm Bi, a couple know I'm bigendered. I wish I had the cofidence to tell more people but I'm so shy. I might tell one of my friends who is also the HR person. I get along with my managers pretty well. One even let me cry on her shoulder when my last gf and I broke up. (gets tears in eyes) I'm just really appreciative for all the people in my life that make it worth waking up for. I think I'll do something for the holidays for them. Well that was long, I'm gonna stop since the screen is a bit blurry now, even though I can type from key memory. *waves*

My "Going Fulltime" Story....

[dale62676.livejournal.com]

So here it is...
The one thing in my transition I've been the most anxious about was taking this step, to finally live in the female gender role, all the time, 24/7, and most frightening, at work. I did all the research I could on how other people's transition to going fulltime went, but was often asking, "yeah, but how...how did you inform HR, your boss, how did you break the news to co-workers, and how was the adjustment overall"
So I'm going to throw my story out there for all to read, AND WITH PICTURES OF MY FIRST DAY!! Yes, everyone loves pics :)

Posted in my journal at dale62676 and x-posted to mtf, youngtranswomen, gbltboston

An anonymous confession.

[briuqoec.livejournal.com]

Hello all,

I'm posting under a fake name because I want this to be anonymous because I'm very embarrassed. I'm a 21 year old MTF with a bit of a problem. Sometimes, when I dress in female clothing or shop for it, I get a little bit "excited". Nothing full on and I haven't even ever acted on it in private, but I get a definite rush and a little movement "down there", even for things as simple as socks. This is really distressing to me. I don't think I'm just man with a transvestitic fetish. I do want to become a girl. I wonder if it's just because it's just a "taboo" thing right now, because I don't pass yet and I'm still living officially as a man. But on the other hand, it's amazing what you can talk yourself in to over time.

I'm just wondering, for those who have been full time or even part time a while, have you ever felt the same feelings? And do they go away once wearing female clothing becomes normal?

This is really hard for me to type, even though I know nobody will know it's me. :(

Binding

[kgola.livejournal.com]

So I've been considering buying a double-front compression shirt for a while, and I mentioned this to my friend who has three, and he said because I'm short (5'2), I might find it uncomfortable. My sitting height is 34inches, though, which is "normal", so really, I just have short legs. Anyway, I'm writing here to find out if any of the ftms here have had problems with the shirt because they were short - my friend recommended the tri-top instead.