moving during transition
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transI'm a 20-year-old MTF. Just started therapy a week ago. The place I'm going to requires six months of therapy before starting on hormones, which means I'd start on hormones in February at the earliest. I'm pretty much full-time now, and have been since the beginning of the summer; I'm going to attend classes as a female once they start up again in the fall.
Anyway, I will be graduating from my current, undergraduate institution in June and moving on to somewhere else for grad school. This brings up a couple questions.
First, moving during transition. There's a part of me that thinks I timed this horribly, because if I do move away from where I am (the Boston area) for grad school, I'm going to have to find new doctors and everything. I'm wondering - is this just an inconvenient nuisance, or can it be more than that?
Second, I'll probably be applying to grad schools as a male. Why? Well, I still have a male name, and New Jersey (which is where I'm a legal resident, and where my parents live) is notoriously slow on name changes. And somehow it seems unwise for my legal name to change during that process, if I can help it. But maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Anyway, my mother told me that she thinks I should wait to transition until I get into grad school. Is there any truth in this, or is she just being paranoid? Bear in mind that the graduate programs I'd be applying to probably don't require interviews, which is a Good Thing for me since I never interviewed well and that's the part that would be most likely by far to out me.
I'd be particularly grateful if anyone whose transition has been timed similarly (that is, transitioning while trying to get into/starting graduate school) could let me know how their experiences with this were.
Anyway, I will be graduating from my current, undergraduate institution in June and moving on to somewhere else for grad school. This brings up a couple questions.
First, moving during transition. There's a part of me that thinks I timed this horribly, because if I do move away from where I am (the Boston area) for grad school, I'm going to have to find new doctors and everything. I'm wondering - is this just an inconvenient nuisance, or can it be more than that?
Second, I'll probably be applying to grad schools as a male. Why? Well, I still have a male name, and New Jersey (which is where I'm a legal resident, and where my parents live) is notoriously slow on name changes. And somehow it seems unwise for my legal name to change during that process, if I can help it. But maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Anyway, my mother told me that she thinks I should wait to transition until I get into grad school. Is there any truth in this, or is she just being paranoid? Bear in mind that the graduate programs I'd be applying to probably don't require interviews, which is a Good Thing for me since I never interviewed well and that's the part that would be most likely by far to out me.
I'd be particularly grateful if anyone whose transition has been timed similarly (that is, transitioning while trying to get into/starting graduate school) could let me know how their experiences with this were.