I have written a few time recently about fresh starts, new experiences, and indeed the passage of time. Much of this has been without reference to my transition, and I do understand that many of you come to read a gardening, or a music based Blog, but since Paula's Place did start out as a Trans Blog I think it is now time to come clean about my latest big change, or at least currently still immanent change.
Back in August 2011 (or over half a million hits ago!) when I started out here I considered myself a "Plain vanilla cross dresser" married with daughter, my own burgeoning business, and no intentions of changing any of that. Now I consider myself a single Trans Woman, I transitioned socially a few years ago, and have now been taking hormone therapy for about 18 months, and my whole life is very different. But then again I am very different, I am occasionally asked what effects the hormones are having, and I'm sure that the questioner is primarily interested in primary sexual characteristics, I general choose to disappoint them. The things that strike me most are not just a couple of physical developments, as much as my mental state. In simple terms I am no longer angry, all the time. I was not even aware of this underlying and permanent state. I just thought that was how life was, a little like before I had glasses I thought everybody saw the world as fuzzy, that was simply how it looked. Now I know better.
Sure my skin is softer, my nails brake more easily, and most fun of all my sense of smell is so much better! But the more placid me is much nicer, and I am a better musician for it. All this has happened through more hormonal changes, yet they are still well outside of "normal" levels, so I am now having some enhanced medication. It will be interesting to see what will change next. I am rather excited about all this, but it is also tempered with some apprehension; especially when I consider what the next stage of this strange journey will be if I choose to take it.
Back in August 2011 (or over half a million hits ago!) when I started out here I considered myself a "Plain vanilla cross dresser" married with daughter, my own burgeoning business, and no intentions of changing any of that. Now I consider myself a single Trans Woman, I transitioned socially a few years ago, and have now been taking hormone therapy for about 18 months, and my whole life is very different. But then again I am very different, I am occasionally asked what effects the hormones are having, and I'm sure that the questioner is primarily interested in primary sexual characteristics, I general choose to disappoint them. The things that strike me most are not just a couple of physical developments, as much as my mental state. In simple terms I am no longer angry, all the time. I was not even aware of this underlying and permanent state. I just thought that was how life was, a little like before I had glasses I thought everybody saw the world as fuzzy, that was simply how it looked. Now I know better.
Sure my skin is softer, my nails brake more easily, and most fun of all my sense of smell is so much better! But the more placid me is much nicer, and I am a better musician for it. All this has happened through more hormonal changes, yet they are still well outside of "normal" levels, so I am now having some enhanced medication. It will be interesting to see what will change next. I am rather excited about all this, but it is also tempered with some apprehension; especially when I consider what the next stage of this strange journey will be if I choose to take it.
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