So here it is...
It has been such a long journey to get to this point that i honestly never thought it would...
I mean 2 months ago, i was certain id never have the courage... and now here i am... holding it in my hands...
HRT Date: 1/5/24 🥳🥳🥳
There are the spouses/partners that reject their Trans partner...
There are spouses/partners that encourage & enjoy their Trans partners...
But there is a 3rd one that feels... difficult...
The spouse/partner that tries hard to support their Trans partner but not excited
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The worst part about contemplating transition at 34 has nothing to do w/ time lost, or reversing 2 decades of the wrong puberty...
It's having to tell everyone I know, that the person that they know the entire time they've known me... isn't the real me...
The wildest thing... despite being nearly 6 months on HRT
Im still too scared to do anything
I always wanted & thought HRT would be a catalyst to action
The thing that finally sparks me forward. To take control of my life. To advocate for me & push forward into the world
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Yeah... im pretty sure im gonna stealth mode* my transition...
(*By stealth mode, i mean take HRT in secret for the rest of my life while pretending to be a dude & never coming out publically)
Gonna change a narrative a bit...
I'm not a woman trapped in a guy's body...
I'm a woman trapped in the societal perception & pressures to be a man.
That feels way more accurate...
omg!! it happened again!!
having lunch with my wife, server comes up, takes my wife's order, and then turns to me and says "And for you ma'am..." looks at me, pauses, then says "oh sorry, sir"
that's twice... in less than a week!!! wtf?!?! 😯😯😯
My wife just told me the most hopeful thing this morning...
She said "Youre my Pickle, and Iove you! Where the lumps & bumps are Idc. You are my Pickle & i love you"
🥰🥰🥰
(Context: pickle has been her term of endearment for me for like 15 years. And she is my Cue Pea)
so I told my wife I was going to be designing an Xbox controller.
Her 1st question "are you gonna design a trans flag one??"
so maybe I don't need to come out to her again... 🤔
These are the types that love their Trans partner & want them to be happy & whole...
But shows little to no excitement for mile stones or euphoric moments
They encourage their Trans partners to do the things that will make them happy & euphoric
But rarely share in the joy
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And i feel like that relationship is where i find myself and its hard
Because part of me really wants my best friend & person I choose to participate in the joy of me being me
But i know its hard for her to watch the husband & man she thought she knew disappear physically
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Interesting thought:
CW: Death
I got Covid. Covid is deadly. There was a possibility that Covid could have killed me. I would have died being remembered as him. Only the people of this bird app would have ever known the truth.
What will it take to push me from this closet?
One of these times when my wife tells me how much she is worried about me & my health and she just wants her & I to have a good quality of life as we grow old together
Im going to break down in tears & tell her how much Im hurting
Tonight isnt that time, but one of these times
So im not out to either of my kids, but we got my daughter a UV light & gel nail polish kit...
Came home from my HRT appointment and she asked if she could paint my nails...
How fucking euphoric is that?!?!?
Ahhhhh i love it!!!!
Update: appointment w/ the gender clinic on the 17th is cancelled...
Becuz i just had my labs done for a preliminary check and then ill have a script...
Holy shit balls... its happening!!!!!
Ya girl did it!!!
Starting Monotherapy Injections!!!!! So excited to see where this next step takes me!!
Also, this primary care office is so welcoming. There is a Trans person at the front desk, said hi to me, by name!! And it all just put me at ease going in!!
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Shit... i might... actually do this.
Holy crap... am I really moving forward?!?!
Am i really going to start?!?
Jfc... i think it will actually happen... 😳😳😳
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Out to lunch w/ the wifey & the server comes from behind me and says "Do you ladies need anything?"
She looked at me when she turn to the table & it legit took her 10 - 20 secs to "correct" herself.B
This is want she signed up for, but she is trying because she loves me...
Their is just an obvious difference between a spouse/partner who is excited for their Trans partners transition... and the support but no excitement partner...
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And i just... *sigh* i dont know how to manage my thoughts & feelings around it...
She loves, she is trying...
But i feel i have to mute or minimize my joy cuz she doesnt seem too interested in it...
😮💨😮💨😮💨
This is tiring
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE SIMULATION PROGRAMMERS:
Can you help a girl out here and just reprogram things so that I can at least start transitioning without losing everything I care about?
(FYI: the only thing I care about are my wife and kids)
Sincerely,
A trapped Trans girl
Welp... i manifested it... at the most inopportune time... monday morning the week of thanksgiving...
My wife read my text messages to a friend from twitter... and then reas my pinned tweet...
Its happened...
Listen...
She is trying. She is trying very hard to not be the monster who tries to prevent her spouse from transition & being myself....
She tells me to do what i need to. She hasnt told me no or i dont want you to do that.
She encourages me the best she can...
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Just had a pre-visit phone confirmation where the nurse addressed me as Tori, asked me my pronouns, which for the 1st time told someone in a non-queer space "she/her". And briefly talked about gender affirming care... ahhhh 🫠🫠🫠
But there isnt any joy or excitement or happiness in my transition for her...
Its an unspoken thing between us... some casual jokes here & there
But mainly its ignored until i say something, & the response is "yes thats fine. Do what you hafta. You dont need my permission"
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She is supportive becuz she loves me & she wants to support her spouse
But she shows no excitement or positive emotion for it when i bring things up
I know it sounds like im whining
Im happy i have some support from her
But i just want to be excited & i feel like i cant be
I really just so badly want EXIST as a woman.
I don't need anything special. Just to be, live, exist as a woman.
Go out as me... A woman...
And what I need from you?? Nothing... Just ignore me.
I just want to exist.
I just no longer wanna pretend to exist as a guy.
Update: appointment w/ the gender clinic on the 17th is cancelled...
Becuz i just had my labs done for a preliminary check and then ill have a script...
Holy shit balls... its happening!!!!!
So... on Monday evening I impulsively deleted my account. And honestly, I had almost no intention of coming back.
I felt very much alone, broken, & tired. Tired of fighting... tired of trying to straddle this life...
I deleted my account becuz I wanted to disappear...
Alright, Checklist:
-Come out to Wife✅️ (4yrs ago)
-Tell Wife I need HRT✅️
-Make a Gender Clinic Appt✅️
Next up:
-Tell my kids Im Trans
-Tell my Best Friend Im Trans
and then hope that the most important people & the people whose opinions matter to me...
accept the new, real version of me.
I hate the anxiety of this part of potentially transitioning.
So what if I just...
now hear me out on this...
What if I just talk to my wife & tell her what's going on in my head...😶
hahaha cmon now, that's never gonna happen.🤣🤣🤣
but maybe...🤔
Im sorry...
I know everyone is sending encourage, love, and support...
I just dont have the energy to respond to everyone.
Please know i see you all and im liking every response i can to let you know ive seen you...
Thank you 💜🫂
Omg... went to the dispensary to pick up my vape and a super cute Trans chick was the one taking my order. Took the whole 5 mins for me to finally muster up the courage to tell her i loved her purple gel nails 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I really hope i casually clocked myself as a boymode trans girl
24 hours from now, I'll be sitting in the doctors office for my wellness visit where im going to tell the physician I want to start HRT... 😬😬😬
Totally fine... definitely NOT getting anxious...
@Charlotte_Alexx
"But I know someone this happened too..."
No, "you" know someone who was forced to suppress any expression of who they are for so long, that they sought any way possible to be themselves. And then realized they could no longer hide it & transitioned.
They already were trans!!
Holy fuck...
Im just sitting here thinking...
I could be on HRT for a full year this time next...
Thats... fucking wild...
And its not even wishful thinking...
In just over 2 weeks i could have a prescription...
Jfc... what the what?!?!
Today marks 4 years since i came out to my wife the 1st time...
I had so much hope & motivation even if i was trying everything i could to avoid HRT for the sake of our marriage...
Almost 4 years later i finally was able to "show" her & then tell her that i couldnt do it...
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Listen, I know estrogen isnt going to magically solve all my problems...
But god i want estrogen to magically fix all my mental hang ups that prevent me from functioning like a normal person...
Like make it so my brain can allow me to just... do things
😮💨😮💨😮💨
Wow... seriously... ya'll are amazing!!!
This is the most my notifications have blown up ever...
Thank you for the love & support...
I wish i could respond to everyone, just know i appreciate you!!! 💜💜💜
So i know i havent really posted in a few days...
But i just want anyone who cares to know that...
Im doing okay...
Actually better than okay... i feel... motivated... empowered... driven...
Telling my wife about the appt was the last roadblock in the way of me hiding...
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When I finally decide I am able to present in fem... Would it be too juvenile if I wanted to rock a bow in my hair? Like a cute bow in the pony tail??
Just curious...🎀
But ive found... its only begun changing the body & quieting the mind around gender...
It has not seemingly created that spark i was desperate for...
Instead i still cling to the same fear, but heightened as it becomes closer to a reality...
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So ive never been more sure of anything in my life than needing to start HRT...
But even still... knowing over the next couple weeks i will begin that journey, im anxious...
Not of any external influence, but if what will happen in my marriage once i do...
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So my 7yr old daughter saw this on my desk and goes...
"Daddy why does that say she/her, shouldnt it say he/him"
And she said it a way that made me feel like she grasped & understood someone's pronouns...
Damn it i wish there was some way to know i did it right...
Like a status bar that pops up saying "Status: Completed" or "Status: Failed, Try again"
I just gotta now wait and wonder... 😵💫😵💫😵💫
Shit... i know i cant go back...
Its out there i know what i need. I need hrt to be able to be a human & do more than take up space...
Im scared what will happen...
But i cant go back...
Now its a waiting game... as i figure how to get & start HRT. Need to keep talking to her
Warning right now...
If anyone comes at me saying my wife is the bad guy or a horrible person or how could she force me to choose between myself and my family...
I will stop that shit right away...
Im not even playing. She didnt choose to love a closeted person...
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yuuuuup...
100% certain my wife doesn't even think about the fact that I'm I came out to her as a trans woman almost 2 years ago now...
She just made a suggestion about doing things to raise my T levels to increase my sex drive...
😶
I must do the work & push forward to sieze the life i want...
But my adhd brain & my fear continue to work against me...
They hinder me from true action & cause me to freeze in the face of opportunity...
I lack the strength to overcome them...
I waste precious time...
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Her words "i wish i could be like your friends spouses. I wish i wasnt like this. I wish you could be you, a woman, and i could be with you romantically and intimately as woman... i wish i was different..."
We both want to be different so we can be together...
Finally got my Total T results back...
53 pg/mL
Down from 351 in June...
Injection only no blockers!!!
Pretty excited my body is able to supress the T with just E-injections!! 🥳🥳🥳
(Ref: E is 371.99)
I did the thing that everyone has been telling me to do...
And i dont feel relieved or like a weight has been lifted...
I feel crushed and numb... idk how to function... im wandering lost with no direction, but the path back is blocked...
😮💨
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Suddenly getting a lot of troll comments saying i cant just become a girl...
And ya know what theyre right!!
Im not becoming a girl, ive always been one, just developed under the wrong puberty...
Im just gonna fix that!! Thanks being affirming!! 😘
Holy Forkin Shirt Balls...
I am actually on the titty skittles and anti-cistamines
Like i cant believe it...
It almost doesnt feel real...
Im actually starting my journey to feeling like me...
Like im waiting, but im actively waiting...
My mind is legit 🤯🤯🤯
I know i could lock my account and avoid the influx of transphobe hate ive been getting in my replies...
But there are Trans people on this desolate app who resonate w/ my story
So i want to be a voice of positivity & hope!!
So i will manage the trolls to be visible for others
But oh my gosh!!! Is this what ya'll feel like everytime!?!?!
I held it together through lunch, but now I'm alone and I'm just going crazy with excitement at what happened!!
Even I'm a lady* !!!!!!*
fuck...
just...uh...fuck...
*sigh*
I hate this. I hate the gravity & weight of the decision to open up to my wife
I just wish it could be simple & easy.
Why does this have to be so costly?
Why cant I just exist w/o implications of Armageddon to our entire life we built ☄
Uh...
I just noticed...
My son is now following me on my Tori tiktok...
Idk when he followed but it must have been after i sent him a link before i realized it displayed my acct...
This is my profile pic...
And i had She/Her in bio...
Sees a pretty girl wearing a cute outfit...
Me: Wow she's pretty & very attractive...love her look...omg her shoes are cute...and love that skirt...I can't wait to wear black nylons with patent black heels...
And that my friends is the mind of a closet lesbian transwoman 😳😁
I did exactly this when i was 15...
I have a vivid memory of lying in bed one night balling crying out to God to let me wake up a girl...
By 17 I felt there is no way im a girl, and spent 10 yrs thinking i was a masc alpha type dude...
Just different than other alph a types 😅
Anyone else, when out at a restaurant or food place, see a customer being angry with the worker immediately assume the customer is just a jerk??
Idk if it's becuz I've worked retail & the service industry, but my 1st thought is the customer is the problem, not the employee 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Monday 630am... it finally happened... the thing i spent 4 years terrified of doing...
Now Friday at 8pm... i am feeling very impatient...
I wanna do all the things... and i wanna do them now...
😫😫😫
* From behind, sitting in a chair, with my wife, to an older woman probably in her 70s.
😂😂😂😂
I'll take it!!!
don't mind me, just gonna be floating for a while... 🥰🥰🥰
So ... Umm... Remember that thing I said I was gonna do a couple weeks ago but didnt...
Well uh... Ya girl did it... (W/ the amazing instruction of the lovely
@melissa_mayb
)
First full face of make up attempt...
Let me know what ya think & be honest. Cant get btr if idk..💜💖
unfortunately, this has gone exactly how i thought it would. She told me i need to do whatever i need to in order ot be happy and be me. And she will support me thru it all.
But she said that this only has 2 paths... there is no 3rd path...
I envy & admire those who face hardships & their fears to become who they were meant to be...
Even out of desperation, i envy the ability to go forward...
I wish i was able to do it...
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