An introduction and a question...
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transHi all,
I've been watching this community for a while, posting the odd comment. I felt it proper to introduce myself before I ask a few questions, so here goes.
I've had gender dysphoria for as long as I can remember, the earliest feelings I can pin at about 5 years old. Waiting for these feelings to pass I stayed stumm about them for all my life. After getting out of a rather oppressive relationship I managed to get close to a partner accepting enough to let me explore the issue a little more. Having been crossdressing for a few years I felt the need to take the step I've been waiting all my life to do, and now I'm waiting for my endocrinologist to get back to me about beginning hormone treatment.
In the past I've often been mistaken for a girl without actively trying, which is something I put down to long hair and a thin physique. In about the last year I started CDing to work, and I'm now at a stage where I feel I'm making people uncomfortable by using male facilities and a male name. I've been hit on in the last year with some regularity by lecherous men in public places, which, while unsettling, does make me feel I'm doing something right. I feel it's coming close to time I went through a name change, and I'm toying with either 'Sylvia' or 'Hayley' at the moment.
Here's me about 5 years ago:
3 years ago in goth:
Sometime early last year, when I became more comfortable with a feminine apearance:
Nowadays:
Well, that's me.
My question here is - Having contacted an endocrinologist, how long would you predict a waiting period to take before further contact, and how much longer still until hormone replacement therapy can begin?
(This is something I feel a little impatient about, having been wanting this all my life, not getting any younger at 24, and being so strongly tempted by online pharmacy offers...)
Thanks for listening all.
Sylph x
I've been watching this community for a while, posting the odd comment. I felt it proper to introduce myself before I ask a few questions, so here goes.
I've had gender dysphoria for as long as I can remember, the earliest feelings I can pin at about 5 years old. Waiting for these feelings to pass I stayed stumm about them for all my life. After getting out of a rather oppressive relationship I managed to get close to a partner accepting enough to let me explore the issue a little more. Having been crossdressing for a few years I felt the need to take the step I've been waiting all my life to do, and now I'm waiting for my endocrinologist to get back to me about beginning hormone treatment.
In the past I've often been mistaken for a girl without actively trying, which is something I put down to long hair and a thin physique. In about the last year I started CDing to work, and I'm now at a stage where I feel I'm making people uncomfortable by using male facilities and a male name. I've been hit on in the last year with some regularity by lecherous men in public places, which, while unsettling, does make me feel I'm doing something right. I feel it's coming close to time I went through a name change, and I'm toying with either 'Sylvia' or 'Hayley' at the moment.
Here's me about 5 years ago:
3 years ago in goth:
Sometime early last year, when I became more comfortable with a feminine apearance:
Nowadays:
Well, that's me.
My question here is - Having contacted an endocrinologist, how long would you predict a waiting period to take before further contact, and how much longer still until hormone replacement therapy can begin?
(This is something I feel a little impatient about, having been wanting this all my life, not getting any younger at 24, and being so strongly tempted by online pharmacy offers...)
Thanks for listening all.
Sylph x