wannabe a tgirl now

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You're getting into serious questions here, and I have to encourage you to join some actual TS support forums if you want to talk about this, not a casual forum centered around guys who like tranny porn. Don't ya think?

Originally Posted by biswajyoti

wat about waxing again and again until the follicles get damaged...it will be painful i know.......

Waxing doesn't do anything permanant. It takes longer for the hair to come back since it has to get back to the surface of your skin, and the hair will be thinner at first because it doesn't have a blunt cut at the end from a razor. But it does very little to damage the follicles. Yes, if you wax your face (or if you have coarse hair on your chest or crotch and wax there) you might see a little blood, but this isn't usually enough to kill the follicle. You need to permanently destroy the capillary that supplies the follicle.

I use an epilator on my legs. It's a lot cheaper than waxing over and over. I used to pluck a lot of the hairs on my face with tweezers before I got laser. But waxing your face is pretty harsh. Luckily I never had any hair on my back and almost none on my arms/chest (and have since gotten laser on my face/chest), but if I was hairy I would just use an epilator everywhere. Of course you would need to get someone else to do your back.

Originally Posted by biswajyoti

if people around me comes to know it will be a matter of great concern for my family as i am a part of a conservative society.

Obviously eventually people around you will have to know.

My family is very conservative and very religious. I've had to just cut off contact with them.

Originally Posted by biswajyoti

it might help if anyone who has walked the road can share their experiences...so that i can mentally prepare myself....

i also want to know whether anyone have ever tried the gender tests online and if my scores are something which support my claim that i am a female trapped in the wrong body?

Oh honey... You're obsessing over these online tests. Who do you think wrote these tests? What gives them the authority to judge your femininity? The COGIATI is often ridiculed in the TS community.

Just look at the questions. They're all sooooo obvious. The first question is about math. Obviously you are being judged under the assumption that more mathematically minded people are more masculine. But I'm a software engineer and I'm extremely good at designing algorithms. Does this make me a man? Why?

Look at question 4. What the hell kind of meeting do you go to where someone stands up and says, "It's time for hugs all around!" Obviously you're supposed to say "Good idea" if you're female, but that's so stupid! Sure, I love hugs from people who I think actually care. But the idea of hugging strange women in a meeting is creepy!

Transsexual people generally have trouble fitting in, feeling normal, and thinking like normal people. There's an overlap between the symptoms of mild autism and transsexuality. Some of these are considered masculine traits (like being detached, focusing on details, being good at math, and certain communication problems), but they really have nothing to do with being masculine.

If you want other people's opinions of your gender let me give you some help. Answer this question: Were you born with a penis? Yes? Then most people consider you a man. Stop worrying about what other people think.

Originally Posted by biswajyoti

there were some tests on blogthings.com. the results are:

Do You Use the Internet Like a Man or a Woman?
What's Your Inner Gender?
Do You Communicate Like a Man or a Woman?
Are You Masculine or Feminine?
What Gender Is Your Brain?

As absurd as the COGIATI is, anything you're going to find on blogthings.com is probably worse. What kind of scales are those to rate people on? An online test can't tell you what gender your brain is. A functional MRI scan of your brain can show that someone who was born male but is on HRT has a more female brain. But an online test?

Originally Posted by biswajyoti

can anybody give me an idea about the total costs and duration for the complete transformation....
i am 24 ..... will it be possible for me to make the transformation. what is the maximum age after which it is not possible??? any help with these questions???

Everybody's transformation is different. I know people who have had no surgery and are not on hormones but have lived as female for years. I also know people who have had SRS but couldn't handle transition so they still live as male. So nobody can say for you what the costs and duration of your transformation will be. A friend of mine spent $40,000 for facial surgery a few months ago. That's a major expense. But many people transition without that expense. And many people would consider themselves transitioned without ever getting SRS. What have my costs been? Well, I've spent about $1,500 on laser hair removal. I spend about $100/mo on hormones. I also go to weekly therapy, spend a lot at the mall, and I dropped about $500 at Sephora and $200 at MAC in the past two months.

Your question makes me think you have a bad mindset. Transition is not an overnight thing. Many people focus too much on one part of transition -- especially SRS. You sound like you think this word "transition" means something that will magically take you from a male person with TS feelings to a 100% female person. That's not going to happen. I've talked to a lot of post-op girls, and none of them regret getting the surgery, but many of them are disappointed because they thought getting their penis removed would magically make them feel complete and totally female. That's not going to happen.

Anyway ... so you're 24? You really want a doctor to give you blood tests before you start hormones, but it would be very helpful for you to get on at least some kind of DHT blocker (finasteride a.k.a. Propecia/Proscar, or dutasterade a.k.a. Avodart) and maybe a T blocker. You don't want to start going bald while you're deciding whether or not you want to transition.

There is no maximum age. I know people who didn't start their transition until they were almost 70. At that point obviously they're not going to grow pretty hair and big boobs just because they're on estrogen.

I didn't start actually taking estrogen till I was 32, and my boobs grew pretty fast. I know people who started hormones at 40 and grew a D-cup. I also know people who have been injecting estrogen since they were 20 and they have an A-cup. Everybody's different.