I remind myself that so far this year ( Read more... )

I am still yet to hear any progress in getting my funding for surgery. This was driven home when I saw the consultant last month and he said that they would have to include my case amongst others that they were taking higher, because we should not be getting refused. He did talk about ultimately legal action if they couldn't get any progress for me ( Read more... )

Voice has broken ( Read more... )

One less welcome, and one so-so.

1) I has spots. Not many and not big. But spots.

2) darker hairs on my upper lip. Which is kind of making the maleness thing more real than ever. There's not many, and only I could possible even notice, but I don't care about everyone else.

Generally still chipper. Knackered. But chipper. 

Seriously, I would hope that you'd join me in laughing at my own voice ( Read more... )

• Voice change started within 24 hours. First of all I mainly lost the top notes and went fairly monotonous (sp?) for a couple of weeks. Customers on my phone were gendering me correctly pretty quickly but in person I was getting a real mixed bag of pronouns. I also had a friend's mum say that she kept getting my pronouns wrong because my voice was ( Read more... )

After a bit of stalling, I had my first shot of Nebido. I feel giddly happy, tired, like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders, and like I can finally rest ( Read more... )

Saw the consultant at the clinic today ( Read more... )

Well a year ago I was living as a woman, was heading downhill mentally and emotionally, and was still waiting for my funding to be approved ( Read more... )

I changed my diet, cutting back on sugar, and that's helped me feel more positive. As has changing teams at work and being surrounded by people who don't hesitate before they say my name/get pronouns right for me. That's the background, the result is that I took the decision to lower my dose of anti-depressant ( Read more... )