10 days on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy).

My voice is getting deeper and it's noticeable to me. I am pitchy at times, but I know that's normal.

My follow-up appointment with the Endo is supposed to happen in January. I'm supposed to get a blood draw for fasting blood work a week before I go in.

I hope to hear about scheduling top surgery by early November. I'm just so ready to get it done.

I know, impatient me. I've only been wanting to get this done since I realized that being trans gender is a real thing in 2009, though I didn't have insurance to do anything until 2015.

I got a total hysterectomy in November of 2015. I also started to find information regarding other parts of transitioning, but didn't find anything until June of 2016.

Things got derailed when Tom was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in August 2016, then he was told it was terminal 2 weeks later. He passed away in March of 2017, 7 months after diagnosis.

I tried to continue looking for information, looking for a gender therapist, but no luck. I decided to devote most of my energy to spending time with Tom, who passed away on 11 March 2017.

After a year of mourning, I slipped and fell in my kitchen and hit my head on something, giving me a concussion.

Before the fall I had made an appointment with my PCP to get the ball rolling for my medical transition. I'd already been wearing men's casual clothes for many years, including a chest binder since 2015.

HRT

16.10.18

I took my first full dose of T this morning. I realized that I forgot to discard the amount that came out of the pump when I was priming the pump. So yesterday's dose was a little less than a full dose.

I'm still learning. <shrug>

~ Drew

Me, 15 Oct 2018

Finally started HRT, Androgel, 12.5 mg on each shoulder.

Writing it down...

I've thought I was a boy for a long time, I didn't like wearing skirts or dresses. I wore them when I thought it was expected of me, since I was assigned female at birth, or AFAB.

I started growing breasts and felt like my body was betraying me. Then I started my period at age 12, more body betrayal.

I tried to be like most girls, but I ended up feeling like I'm acting in a play. It just didn't feel like the real me.

I had 3 children, the first 2 were 2 years apart, the baby is 8 and 10 years younger than his half brothers.

A few years later, Chaz Bono came out as transgender and it clicked. I'm not a tomboy, I'm transgender. I didn't come out to my mom until Caitlyn Jenner publicly came out as transgender. I came out publicly on my Facebook page.

In the beginning one needed to see a therapist to get things done legally and now that isn't required and Medicaid will cover hormones and some other things.

I only want hormones and top surgery. I'll be calling Planned Parenthood tomorrow because they will help transgender people.