Hi Veronica,

What I'm about to say is gonna tick off nearly every TS girl on the board, maybe even some girls I adore;

Taste the rainbow baby!!!

I recently started with a great therapist who specializes in Gender work, and she has many years of experience. She really put my mind at ease about this whole transition thing.

Basically, it is YOUR life and you will need to do what works for YOU, regardless of any well meaning but misguided advice. She said there is no right way to feel comfortable with yourself or deal with whatever your gender issue is. Every person has different needs and every situation is unique.

Don't let the SRS brigade stop you from exploring whatever options you want to explore. These ladies keep harping on safety this and safety that and serious medicine, yadda yadda, ...and they're right. That's why you have a doctor!!!

Personally, I would always trust my doctor and therapist before I would ever entertain the advice of someone on this board who I don't even know is real. This board is great entertainment and there are some great people here (as far as I know) but your doctors are the most important players in this little melodrama. If your docs can understand your goals, than that's all that matters.

I'm appalled at some of the snotty comments and holier than thou attitudes in this thread.

Guess what ladies, there are many different paths to contentment. Some of you just see the word hormone and you jump in like it's your job to protect us poor dumb misguided fools. Well, let me clue you in. I don't really care what you think about whatever my plans are so I generally keep them to myself and my actual friends for this exact reason. I won't be put in the position of defending something that me and my doctors are working on. In fact I just recently had some surgery which was rather expensive but very important for my feminizing goals. Notice I never peeped about it, or the long recovery until now.

I know that the path my therapist is suggesting would be met with a howl of protest from the self professed arbiters of femininity so I save myself the grief by not posting personal details along those lines. This is NOT the place to share intimate details about your life.

It's funny that the same people who yap about safety seem to have no problem jumping in and giving dangerous advice like they're qualified to do so. It's my understanding that a therapist can't give advice on HRT until she's had enough time to get to know the patient and the situation. Then the Endo has to do her research. What are you starting with? What are you wanting to do? What are the risks? These people don't care about your health and safety. No doctor would advise you without at least some very basic information which you haven't provided. The best and only advice you should get is simply; see a doctor.

In general, free advice is worth every penny, but I would say that free medical advice is worth much less. Especially when the advice giver has an obvious bias.

-Misty