I don’t know if anyone else feels this way. I am MtF and have been transitioning on hormones for 3 years now, but only started living fulltime about 12 months ago (prior to that I was still a bit more fluid). I just feel like I have a really lazy/casual approach to transitioning. I’ve been content just taking hormones, lasering my face and body hair and not doing much else. I’m out to everyone in my life and they all are pretty good with treating me as a girl and using my correct name and pronouns. But I have no interest in training my voice, getting any surgeries or dressing up ultra femme all the time. My general go to attire is jeans and a hoodie, I did grow my hair out and bleached it and I do wear some makeup every day for my complexion, and a little bit of mascara but very rarely wear anything more.
I guess I just hate putting too much energy into transitioning. I’ve changed what I generally wanted to change to make myself feel comfortable, but anything that I would do only to convince others I’m female, to pass etc. I just can’t be bothered. This doesn’t mean I don’t experience social dysphoria, it still hurts when I get misgendered, I still feel jealousy of cis females but I don’t want to change things about myself for others if that makes any sense? As I said, luckily everyone I’m close too is awesome with making me feel like a girl no matter what I look and sound like. I also live in an area where my right to access female bathrooms is legally protected so if someone genders me as male and approaches (which has never happened) I can just tell them off (and I am good at being assertive). I guess I was just wondering what other people experiences and approaches to transitioning have been like and what you have/havnt wanted to change about yourself?
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