First of all, I'm currently 20 (mtf), and I won't have the financial ability to start hrt before I'm 25 (can't get hormones in my home state).
I've known I was trans since age 13, I basically knew everything about mtf transitions by the time I was starting puberty, but I live in a LGBT-phobic family and state, so my transition would involve me finishing my college degree and getting a job in a different state which has doctors that can provide actual care for me.
I'm already 6'4, with huge shoulders (it's not muscle, I can feel my shoulder bones and I don't do any weight training), and thin hips.
With all these factors, and my deep male voice it seems very likely to me that transitioning is a lost effort on me...
All these steps seem exceedingly difficult to carry out in reality:
>Hopefully getting to move and getting hormones by 25, then doing years of hormones while HOPING that I react well to them and develop breast tissue and get good fat redistribution.
>Hopefully succeeding at getting my voice and mannerisms to an acceptable place.
>Hopefully having the money to absorb years of medical costs for hormones, endocrinologist visits, psych evaluations, electrolysis, laser hair removal, FFS (which I most definitely need to present female successfully), and the list of expenses just goes on.
>Doing all those things, while also keeping my career and social life in tact seems almost insurmountable.
Going through everything involved in transition, both financially and emotionally, and getting bad results after years of effort seems like a risk that's just a bit too big to take.
I feel it might be best for me to just choose to live with the knowledge that I'll never transition, and try to use the money not spent to make it easier to cope mentally. Maybe I'll still get body hair removal so I feel a little better and try to slowly live my life presenting male while trying to not kill myself both literally, and emotionally.
Any opinions?
>>8849699
selfmed now and stay in boymode. don't wait till you are 25 to start hormones or you will regret it the rest of your life.
>>8849839
this
do your thing gurl. patience is a virtue.
i'm in a very similar boat OP, also 6'4" deep voice broad shoulders. i have pretty much decided against transitioning. i moved to a very LGBT friendly city tho and started hanging around tumblry music queers; they can be a little insufferable but theyre accepting too. started doing little femme things (earrings, light makeup, nice outfits, etc) while still keeping it relatively gender-neutral and i have found that has gone a VERY long way in improving my mental health. i know most of /lgbt/ shits their pants over "genderspecials" but its a nice option for people like us and normies just assume youre a fashionable queer. there seems to be a perception that presenting this way is new and that anyone over the age of 20 will think youre a freak but everyone forgets that the 70s/80s were full of dudes in sequins with blown-out hair and spandex pants. i get treated pretty damn normally
>>8849839
this
I started at 24 and am now 28 and I didn't get any changes except maybe my skin is softer.
I was so hopeful at the start too but I literally have nothing not even shitty tranny gyno tits.
>>8853012
The point is dont fucking wait
>>8849699
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XlY5oGOiD4
You've proved yourself a decisive man so I don't expect you'll have any trouble deciding what to do. If you're interested, just step into the transition and I will take that as a yes. Otherwise, well... I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning. Rather an anticlimax after what you've just survived."
*a portal appears*
"Time to choose..."
"Well, it looks like we won't be working together."
"No regrets, Mr. Freeman..."
>>8849699
Even if you decide to never transition, by the time your 25 you'll be on hormones regardless.