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[katykatie]

Don't be harsh I've just started my transition :? . But I wanna go fulltime and changing my whole wardrobe starting this summer!! I think It won't be too much of a fuzz right.. my friends know me as an "effeminate gay boy" What do u guys and think? Once HS is out, and yes I've just turned 18 so I'm allowed to be nude right :lol: . God I know my hair is awful, just starting to grow it, will extensions do or will I need a wig @@?... Also guys I think my belly is hella ugly... im considering some lipo. lol I dunno if this is the right forum but I've seen other hot TS sistahs posting theirs

[katykatie]

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[T-girl hound]

You'll be ok, just continue on the right path to transitioning

[T-girl hound]

As for your belly, no lipo just some exercise if you want, extensions will work, but you look like you grow nice straight hair.

[MacShreach]

Read this site inside out

http://www.tsroadmap.com/index.html

and also

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html

Don't worry too much about the tummy for now, do exercises as T-girl hound suggests, but just aim for good tone.

If you go on hormone therapy your body will change dramatically anyway and you will probably notice much thicker hair (on your head) as well as radically altered fat distribution; only then will you be able to assess whether plastic work is needed--at your age it probably won't be, in the tummy anyway.

At 18, if you believe you are genuinely transsexual, you do need to move reasonably quickly; I am not suggesting you run headlong into anything, but the more research you do right now the better. You may be going to spend the rest of your life as a woman and there are more important things to consider just now than hair extensions. (I'm not against hair extensions, but all of this costs and you will have to prioritise.)

I'm sure some of the women here can give you more "item specific" info.

Good luck.

[LibertyHarkness]

MacShreach made good sense there with looking at Tsroadmap.....you want to glean as much information as you can on your own, then when armed trot off to your gender specialist/doctor to start the slow process .. I say slow as its a long slow process...I have been doing mine now 2 years and its only the last 6months that I have really started to develop into something I am happy with...

Hormone Treatment is the key, especially at your age you will get very good results over time. I started later alot later :) but am getting reasonable effects of fat distribution, softening of skin.

You look like you can grow your hair naturally. lucky you :) I was not so lucky as i suffered from a bad stress.breakdown that led to me having severe psoirsis on my scalp which meant I scaled up and pulled out skin with roots :( will take long long time to grow back if ever...So i am doomed to use extensions/weaves etc...You can get clip in extensions that look amazing quite reasonably priced now too etc...but its about focus of priority...

For me it was as follows:
1 - Acceptance of my identity
2 - Acceptance within family
3- Start Counselling/Gender Specialist
4- Started sculpting my body, Excersise etc I was 13.7stone now i am 8stone 10 at moment
5- Started on Laser - this is costly, slow and painful I still have a good 8 sessions to go just on my face to be fully hair free
6 - Hormone Treatment commence - Started mine in summer 2008 - in the UK it takes time to get prescribed as you have to do certain things to prove your case .
7- Save up lots of money for future FFS/GRS if your headed that path. AT the moment I am saving up £14000eu to get my Face Feminised in Summer

ok i have rambled on long enough to bore you to death..Just enjoy the process of it all as you go along, also developing a thick skin will be a bonus as people can be VERY CRUEL sometimes..

Dont let anyone bully you into doing this, doing that, there is no magic method to do this, everyone is different and will transsit at their own pace etc..


Just my thoughts.. Good luck with it all...keep posting:)
Libby x

[alyssats]

very passable face already go girl

[SarahG]

Don't worry too much about the tummy for now, do exercises as T-girl hound suggests, but just aim for good tone.

However if you do feel you need to lose weight, try to do it BEFORE going on hrt- as estrogen does make it harder to lose weight, and easier to gain weight.

I am not saying put off/delay HRT until you meet whatever your targets are exercise wise. It usually takes some time to go on HRT because of logistics, even if you plan to go DIY. I would have been on hrt my last year of HS but the logistics worked out to right after graduation over the summer. You want to get as much of those hurdles removed as early as possible- meaning as much reading up on these things as you can handle, finding not just a therapist but a good therapist (even if that means "doctor shopping"), and then having contingency plans for going on DIY as a method of last resort.

I know I will get flak for this (AGAIN), but you need to be prepared to eventually go "you know, I've been playing this therapist gate keeper game for _ months/years, I'm still not on HRT- its time to go DIY." My experience was that doctors absolutely LOATHE writing hrt prescriptions for trans people who are not already on HRT. They don't want the responsibility of making that judgment call, they don't want to worry about whether or not you'll regret it and come back in saying "WHY DID YOU LET ME DO THIS TO MYSELF," etc. On the other hand, if someone is already on HRT (even if its DIY), then doctors are very very eager & cooperative when it comes to writing prescription slips. This creates an obvious catch-22, and one where sometimes DIY hrt is the ONLY WAY for the patient to get on HRT.

The cynical side of me thinks that if I had decided to wait for a shrink to give me a letter for HRT, I'd still be in therapy trying to get on HRT- I spent years spinning my wheels wasting my time & money trying to find a therapist who was ok with starting me on hrt. To make matters worse, a significant amount of the therapists out there think that its a bad idea to start young people on HRT, they don't think most 18 year olds have the cognitive ability to know what gender they are, even if the SoC allows it for people as young as 16. I spent more than two years going from therapist to therapist, paying out of pocket (my insurance would pay for trans therapy but I've never, ever, ever heard of a trans therapist who takes insurance- its a cash only business) for months of sessions only to eventually have the therapist say "you know, I've never had a patient as young as you, I am not comfortable writing you a letter for hrt- I wish you good luck and its time for you to go find someone else." [gee, thanks for telling me that up front... can I have my money for 3-9 months of therapy back now?]. I also didn't feel I needed therapy, and felt somewhat jaded already for having to prove my sanity in order to get on hrt. Think of it this way, the therapist is there to make money. Its a business. The longer they make the patient wait before starting HRT, the longer they make the patient wait before writing letters for SRS- the more cash they'll have coming in. At $100 per 2 weeks, per patient, it pays to delay transitions. Not only that but if they make the patient wait until they can't pass... then the patient might keep going after they transition to deal with the psychological duress resulting from being unpassable/transitioning late. It's the biggest scam/conflict of interest game around.

There is absolutely a time constraint involved. The longer beyond puberty you wait before starting on hrt, the less it will be able to do. If you feel you're ready for hrt, have read up enough about it, and have made more than enough reasonable efforts to get on HRT threw slips/doctors, by all means start hrt DIY. DIY doesn't even have to be as unsafe as is commonly supposed, you can get bloodwork done while DIY- its as simple as walking into a blood lab with a couple hundred in cash. In my experience, I've yet to come across a doctor who actually knew what the hell he was talking about when it comes to HRT.

I kid you not, one time one of my GPs ordered bloodwork (for checking my hormone levels), got the results back, called me into his office (at my expense, counted as a dr visit) and then said right to my face "ok, your blood work results are in, here is the print out they gave me- hopefully you know what it all means BECAUSE I SURE AS HELL DON'T" http://i41.tinypic.com/2lnemu1.jpg You can't rely on doctors knowing what they're talking about, even if you don't do HRT DIY- the more you know, the better.

Don't let anyone try to pressure you into going FT before you feel you're ready. I know people who were on hrt for years, had multiple facial surgeries all before even considering going FT. Rushing FT usually does nothing but cause problems. If the therapist tries to pull "we want you to be FT before HRT," that's when you go find another doctor. Some people are perfectly fine & ready for FT before starting HRT, but I think most people are more comfortable once they've been transitioning for a period of time (YMMV on how long).

There's also nothing wrong with intentionally gaining a small amount of weight once you've been on HRT long enough for it to be distributed properly, some people look better 5 lbs heavier w/ curves, than 5 lbs lighter and w/out curves. There comes a point where being skinny = all your skeletal abnormalities will show better. Anorexia looks bad on GGs, it looks even worse on tgirls because it will show any imperfections on your joints, limbs, skull etc. It's dancing a fine line of course, because too much weight starts another set of problems, especially if your fat distribution on hrt is still in the perceived as male ranges/locations.

[TsVanessa69]

Very good start!!! I see it happening for you. Take it slow!

[farang]

I think you have a pretty face and lovely dark black hair which will look great when you grow it.
Don't go for a wig your natural hair is the way to go.
You don't need to loose weight,perhaps work on your posture and do a few sit ups and your belly will look great.
I think you look lovely and will soon look stunning.

[dan_drade]

Katie,
Looks like you are off to a great start. You look very feminine and pretty already. Since I am a guy, I'll keep my mouth shut on giving out advice as to how you should become a fulltime woman. But there are a lot of beautiful girls here that I'm sure would be more than happy to give you advice.

[NYCdad]

I think you are pretty nice the way you are right now. And I wouldn't be the only one. Good luck to you in your journey.

[katykatie]

oh thanks , all of you!! You wouldnt know how encouraging it was for me ;)

[luv4Tgirls]

SWEET, looking good

[Ryz]

just started your transition ay?
about the weight u should stop drinking pop and switch to water