I have been living virtually full time since I started hormones because my looks aren't all bad and I blend well. My wife goes out with me often to dinner, movies, events, and is becoming my girlfriend as opposed to wife. My biggest issue is practicing behaviors to help me blend even better, my voice (which I have started therapy for), and the fact that I don't pass. At a glance I'm fine but if someone pays attention they make me. No one yet has been rude or even said anything amiss other than the occasional "sir" which I correct. Mentally it's hard to be kind of stared at by people for a bit while they take my presentation in completely. That is where the thick skin is needed and is an issue for any transitioning TS to consider carefully. You will get looked at critically if not impolitely, I am thinking probably for the rest of your life. So here I am not a woman and not a man on the outside but happily feeling like a woman inside more every day. FFS is on my mind but I just read about numbness in a thread and some of the procedures are scary. Even with that, I will always have to deal with the permanent effects of T and a lifetime filled with it. Any positive comments on dealing with this mental battle and thick skin would be appreciated.