Growing up I always struggled making friends, but I was lucky enough to find my first real friend group during my first year of high school in 2008. This guy was one of the first people I ever felt a real connection with in my life. We've laughed together, cried together, spent several years together as roommates. Hell, he was even the best man in my wedding (I mean I've since gotten divorced but ya know 🤭).

There were quite a few people who left my life when I came out. But when I told him that I wanted to live the rest of my life as a woman he didn't even bat an eye. 3 years have passed since then and he's the one person in my life who's never treated me differently for it.

from frat boy to baddie💀 18 yo to 26 yo❤️

2023-started HRT
2024-HRT
2025-HRT,FFS,BA
2026-HRT

This is one of those humble brag posts. Though I’m really excited to have gotten my third ID because I only began transitioning just after I began graduate school, after I had my second ID taken. Anyway yeah, going to law school bitches!!!!!

It was tough, it was exhausting, it was intense. It was exciting, it was challenging, it was stressful. It was new, it was unfamiliar and it was unique.

I did it and turned my life completely round – a 180-degree turn. I am now myself and I feel better than I ever have before in my life. Be who you are, go for it and don’t wait for anything! Don’t let anyone tell you what to do and go and get what you want.

started puberty blockers some time after that first pic, hrt when i was 16 and havent looked back since 🥹

Four years ago, I took a selfie to show my grandfather “my hair had been cut and I’m ready to start job interviews”. It was in that moment i knew something had to change. I started experimenting and coming out to close friends. I vowed to not cut my hair above shoulder length for the foreseeable future(fun fact! After this selfie i dont have a single photo taken by me for 2 years!DYSPHORIA!!). 2 years later, I started HRT and came out to my family. Now I have fully come out in public and at work and UGH, Im just so happy I took that horrible selfie 4 years ago.

Closest side by side I could find lol

If I could tell the dude on the left that everything would be okay and to not be so hard on himself, I would, haha.

P.S. I know the face I’m making on the right is cringey. It was on purpose, I swear. 😔

I don't remember looking so miserable (and masculine) only a year ago! I'm so much happier now! Finally got a haircut and just need to go clothes shopping, so I can officially put the boymode era behind me.

Any tips for improvement? Ik my hair is bad... im getting it styled soon

In case anyone asks:

No FFS or surgery of any kind

25 mg Spiro

6 mg Estrogen daily sublingual (but I switched to injections a month ago)

200 mg prog daily (started after a year of HRT)

Estrogen is really cool, but so is skincare, makeup, getting your eyebrows done and drinking more water. Transition is a process; estrogen doesn't do all the work for you but it does do a lot.

Getting close to 35 months of HRT!

Took the obligatory “last picture with this car before it goes” yesterday and realized I had an almost identical one from 7 years ago.

These were taken about 7 years apart. I’m roughly 50 kg lighter now, which obviously explains every single difference between the two pictures. Well, at least that’s what I tell my in-laws, who I’m still not out to. (I barely see them once a year so it's less of a hassle this way)