#transitiontimeline — Public Fediverse posts

2 photos from me presenting at 2 OSM conferences, 10 years apart. 🙂😁

#Trans #Timeline #TransitionTimeline

Image CW: selfie; multiple ec: alt-text essay

Post CW: dysphoria; normative social systems; longpost

I know today isn't #transitiontuesday, but I'm posting a #transitiontimeline anyway. This one is special for me. I'm wearing no makeup, no distinctly feminine outfit, and I've done nothing with my hair except pull it into a bun. **And there are visible changes!!** I feel more femme, I see myself as more femme, and it doesn't require substantial effort anymore.

I wanted to share these photos because #transitioning is messy. It's long, it's slow, it requires a ton of effort and constantly managing #dysphoria , and **it works**. I feel better about myself today than I ever have in my life, despite the huge amount of change I still hope to undergo.

Fedi helped make it happen. I joined Mastodon shortly after hatching with a million questions and no idea where to start searching for answers. What I found here was a welcoming community of people, many of whom were making amazing progress in their own transitions.

I spent the past year learning and growing, becoming more familiar with who I truly am, and want to be. I've made friends who have changed my life in unexpected and beautiful ways. I've shared **myself** in ways that would have been unimaginable prior to hatching. I feel compelled to recognize this community for all the support, growth, and #transjoy it has provided me. Thank you, my dear, dear friends :Blobhaj_Heart_Trans:

I also want to acknowledge how difficult this process is. So far, I've spent a year painfully extricating my gender experience from the cisgender, heteronormative environment in which I was raised. I've spent two months now making sense of how my approach to relationships has been shaped by the mononormativity that pervades modern media, advertising, social systems, and American culture. And after some intense conversation last night (that went wayyyyy past my bedtime), I'm realizing that even my understanding of love was propagandized by my upbringing. The process of unmaking old habits and shaping new, healthier ones is excruciating. And recognizing how much of **my** life was withheld from me by xenophobic people and systems is frustrating to no end.

So thank you, Fedi, for saving my life, in the sense that without your help, I would never have taken ownership of it in a way that lets me be authentically me, and shape my future independently from, and in spite of, my past. You are **ALL** amazing and beautiful.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Okay. As an oddly-high number of folks seem to think I'm in my 20s still (?!), I should point out that this is what I actually looked like at various points in my 20s.

WHERE ARE YOUR GODS NOW?!

#trans #transgender #PreTransitionSelf #transition #WhereAreYourGodsNow #StillCisTho #TransTimeline #TransTimelines #TransitionTimeline #TransitionTimelines

CW for eye contact, possible confusion, and possibly triggering some folks by seeing my pre-transition self

Two years apart. 26.5 months on gender-affirming hormone therapy. Crown hair fully regrown, hair length increasing, curls I never knew I had. Facial features continuing to change. 49.5 years old. #transitiontimeline #transover40

As it's #TransitionTuesday, y'all can have this comparison I did a month back, before I migrated my account from Mastodon.lol

Original post here:
https://mastodon.lol/@SleepyCatten/109778496015697262

:boostsok:

#TransitionTimeline #trans #transgender #TransFem #TransSelfie #TransSelfieTrain #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HalfLife2

CW for photos: direct eye contact

I’m not telling you to transition. But i am saying you’re underestimating how much is possible.

Make self acceptance something you consider for your resolution. Because if you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.

#TransPoC #Trans #NYE #transgender #TransitionTimeline #Lgbt #lgbtq #LGBTQIA #Timeline