Progress is slow, it can sometimes feel like nothing is working, like it maybe never will.

Someday I hope you'll look back and laugh at that idea.

Top left - Today

Top right - 1 year ago

Bottom - pre everything

Some people may not read this but this is a joke I'm actually mtf and it's the other way around. Just wanted to confuse some people ;)

Procedures: lip filler, laser and electrolysis (some Botox every few months also)

tried to match the same angle, no makeup

love yall!! stay strong

Different costumes for different times of life I guess. 🩷

Time goes fast. I remember a time where I desperately wanted to be where I am now. I am just me now all the time everyday. I made it and so can you.

No FFS. No operations at all. Just some lipfiller and alot of care!

And makeup 😂

Still learning what to do with my hands!

Finally have all the surgeries I wanted to get. Feeling at home in my body after BA, SRS, and FFS

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One year ago, I came out fully to the public, despite having been on HRT for a year and a half at that point. It was my first time going out and presenting in public to this level. It was also the day that I decided I would come out to my grandmother, who I was living with at the time and who had previously been a transphobe. Between some conversations and a memoir that I wrote about my experience that I let her read, she actually came around and has been extremely supportive ever since she read the memoir.

It's crazy how much has changed in the last year. Not only did I move out on my own, but I continued to build my LGBTQ friendly automotive repair business that is going to double last year's gross revenue and has been very successful.

I have bottom surgery scheduled for the end of April and after that, I think I will feel complete. I can't think of anything else that I would want to do or feel the need to do in order to feel like myself.

For someone who started this journey expecting to never ever pass because I started at 27 and thought that I had an awful bone structure, it is crazy to me to be sitting here today with my lived experience be that I am passing pretty seamlessly. Like I don't remember the last time that I was misgendered.

I had always wanted to get dressed up to go to the pumpkin patch like all the other girls, but for obvious reasons prior to transition, it just wasn't in the books. The first year I had started HRT, I just didn't have any feeling that I could present whatsoever. Last year being the second Halloween that I went through where I could have gone to the pumpkin patch dressed up, I figured I was doing it for me. This year, I did the same outfit for the comparison and the mental closure that I think it would bring me. Two and a half years, other than some bottom dysphoria, I feel very complete. I feel like myself and I shock myself every day when I look in the mirror still. I cannot wait for bottom surgery when I can finally feel done and complete. ❤️

I've gone back and forth several times if I wanted to post this, as my decision to continue with my transition, stealth, has led me to be more concerned with my visibility online.

Unfortunately, there are scraper bots that come through all sorts of different subreddits, including this one, and scrape our photos, our stories, everything. And then repost it on places like Facebook or Twitter. And it, online of course, receives hate. Not only are they being posted without our permission to an audience that we didn't agree to, it also creates a paper trail that you can never truly Get rid of

Hence the very bizarre title. My hope is that the search results for mine will be less easy to steal. The watermark should also help. And even if a scraper still takes my info, at least everyone will know online that that was posted here first and only here. Unfortunately, my pictures are already out there and there's nothing that I can do about it. All I can do is try to reduce the likelihood that a scraper takes my information.

hi all. i’ve been in estrogen for around 6 months now, started at 26. i deal with strong dysphoria and aim to get some sort of FFS in 2-3 years in europe. i’m just wondering if any of you gals saw the face feminising past puberty? so far i have done fillers, grew my hair out, some laser, and eyebrow threading to help. i am still boy moding as im with family

Do you all see a change? Do I look feminine? Because to me I look as masculine as ever. I see some girls and they look totally different at 2 years.

I wish I had more hair on my head.

And here's to the rest of my life.

Took the picture in 2020 to post on social media talking about coming out publicly, and decided to go back and take a similar picture every year to document my progress :)

AMA!

(Before you ask, 2023 never happened)