Marking the start of transition...

[franchesca]

So this month will be the start of my journey to womanhood. The road map has been carefully laid out, thought out, and well planned as best as any transgender woman could ask for... so what better way to embark with a new tattoo! I'll be posting the pics of mine tomorrow if possible but this got me to wondering.... who else has marked the start of their transition and how?

[Aimee20]

Actually I got a tattoo on my foot lol

[franchesca]

I have one with my sons name on my foot and that hurt... bad. The one im getting tomorrow is in the bikini line and very feminine. Its a cover up of a mistake when I was using and I expect it to be 1000x the pain but also very symbolic of the pain of whats to come of transition

"TO THYNE SELF BE TRUE" is what my mind keeps telling me and I know transition will be painful in every aspect of my life... but in the end not following through with it is beyond any pain I could ever live with.

[Angela Campbell]

Thing is i cannot pinpoint the start of my transition. When was it? I dunno it kinda just happened.

[allisonagain]

Good luck and enjoy the new you! I am going to start my transition very soon, I have my first MD appt for hormones tomorrow. Like you I will endure almost any pain to release what has been denied and suppressed for all my life. I feel like a flower ready to burst into bloom.

[celeste26]

My opinion is that the very first time you went to a counselor to start HRT was the beginning. Everything prior to that was warm up. The process of getting "the letter" requires intent, commitment, and money too. Everything after that is just part of the transition itself. If you intend to get a tattoo, that is part of a celebration.

[Leah Lynn]

I first talked to my doctor last August, to get the ball rolling. Last September, I saw the professionals, psych and endo. They both agreed that I was old enough to get started right away, and began hrt that month. So... did I miss my anniversary last month, or do I celebrate this month?

Honestly, it doesn't matter much to me. What matters most is that I'm doing it...

Hugs,

Leah

[Cheryl123]

I consider the start of my transition to be the day I started taking hormones. I celebrate that day to be my birthday now. When I reached the one year mark a few weeks back, I had a little party to make the beginning of my transition. Tattoos are cool too.

[I Am Paula]

The day I was prescribed hormones is my re-birthday. The girls in my support group brought cake.

[Rachel Smith]

I didn't get my latest tattoo to mark the beginning of my transition but my transition did allow me to get my tramp stamp. :D

[franchesca]

Love love love it Rachel!!! Still trying to figure out how to upload the pic of mine....

[whowhatwhen]

Mine is the second I swallowed the estrace, that marked the time I began to correct a great wrong :)
I'm not sure I'd mark it with a tattoo though, I'd need an idea that I'd want to keep on me forever plus an artist who can pull it off.

I'd like to get one to cover up some bad skin though, I'm really self conscious about it and I think it would help.

[franchesca]

231691

omg it hurts lol but I love it!

[VanTG]

Odd Isn't it, I cam along your post and thought about it for a while, then I found this on a Facebook site and thought how cool this would look as a Tat! I would get some eyes and possibly lips added and would have it on my upper thigh. Thoughts?

231845

[Angela Campbell]

I have considered getting the starship Enterprise on my butt


where no man has gone before

[franchesca]

Awesome pattern Van!!


@Angela rotflmbo almost made me pee my panties!!!!!

[whowhatwhen]

I have considered getting the starship Enterprise on my butt


where no man has gone before

The ship going in or leaving?
:P

I want to get a text tattoo that says "I want to get a tattoo that is just text saying I don't care just put whatever."

[VanTG]

I have also been intrigued by something really quite girly, 231856

[franchesca]

Mmmmhhhmmm thank you van.... ill be in the chair later this week getting a garter belt done now! ♥♡♥