Small Victories

little steps, little sister.(*hug*)

 

Amazing, Courtney. I just hope I don't have issues when I come out at work.

 

Great, oh and about that guy who said "look he's in a skirt" 200 years ago it would of also been "look she's in trousers" so i think it will become socially acceptable for a man (even though your not a man) to wear skirts

 

My first gc2b binder arrived today and it's great. I'm glad I ordered it after thinking about wanting to have one of those for so long.

 

I am still working on being more confident in myself as a woman. In terms of having people confirm that I am passing, it hasn't happened much yet but I have yet to start on hormones.

Thankfully, I am out at work and everyone is supportive of me, especially the other women. One of my coworkers is also a trans woman and she has had more success than I have at passing, then again she has started on hormones and seems to know more about who she is than I do.

I am still in the preteen girl mindset of I have no idea how I want to act feminine. I am teaching myself all the mannerism I used to use when I was way younger (like five years old), before I felt I had masculinity shoved down my throat and was told to act and walk the way men do.

So I am slowly learning how to show who I am on the inside to everyone else, it is just hard for me to remove all the years of repression of who I really am all at once.

Also, I have a bad tendency to put others thoughts and feelings over my own, which can be good in some circumstances but is really terrible in my everyday life for self expression. This is so bad that most of the time I am really shy about showing who I am to other people and I have a real problem with sharing my thoughts and feelings.

Busy working at it and hoping to actually add a real success story soon. Maybe after I start HRT in about 3 weeks? (IDK)

With Love and Hugs,
Alice

 

I just went to a school concert wearing make-up
No one noticed, if they did they didn't say anything

 

Last week I came out to my friend and told him that I prefer they/them pronouns and he immediately started to use them.

 

While my partner and I were in Texas tending to a family emergency, we both celebrated our seven month on T mark. Oh, and I got to see my niece in-law for the first time and she's taken a major liking to the both of us (her birthday is two day after mine, so that makes things interesting).

 

fantastic, this is parenting done right.:eusa_clap

 

I cut my hair a lot shorter today. Quite recently it's grown so long and I've been really uncomfortable with it, now with shorter hair I feel a lot better! I finally look a bit more like how I want to.
Also recently I went shopping by myself for some new clothes. I got some outfits from the men's section which makes me a lot happier; I wanted to wear those type of clothes for a long time now. These few days I've been wearing them out and it's great.
Anyways just some small things in my gender journey, at least I can express myself more freely now than before.

 

Good for you! One step at a time! ^_^

 

I'm finally out to some of my classmates and one teacher, wooo! It was so much easier than it sounds! We filled out these sheet things in English for the teacher to get to know us, and there was a gender identity spot! I actually got the guts to be honest! So many exclamation points! (!)

 

Bought my first binder yesterday. It should be here Monday. ^.^

 

Congrats, that must be great to finally get one! -internet five-

 

My riding instructor used male pronouns a few times today. I guess it's hard for her to wrap her head around and it made me super happy.

 

My brother saw me as a woman for the first time today and he was just so nice and offered to do a photoshoot with me (he is a photographer) so he can get to know the new me better. he confessed he is having a hard time to get used to it but he said he is going to accept me for who i am.
So happy... and it's only 5 days away from my first apointment at the gender clinic
*bounce bounce*

 

Thats great!

 

Great news! So I talked to my advisor and she informed me that the Uni can change my name (and possibly gender) in the system even before I get my name legally changed. So soon I might be able to appear as "Jack" in the school system! (!)

 

This isn't really a victory per se but tomorrow I get to wear that one outfit I have which makes me look most like a guy. (Not that others I have are terrible, but this one is the best at doing so)
I don't have a lot of clothes which make me look how I want to look and to be perceived (and I'm not always in the position to buy more outfits), but this outfit is great. I don't get to wear it all the time (of course, I have to wash it and I can't wear the same thing every day), but I'm happy when I do get to wear it!