Money

[JodieTs]

Cost of transition
This isn't cheep.
Below are my past and ongoing expenses. And forthcoming ones.
- Medication / hormones: ?300 (I get them on the NHS now)
- Psychiatry: ?600
- Laser hair removal(face): ?3500
- Gender Counseling: ?1400
- Face Feminisation Surgery FFS: ?23,000 (inc. travel and accommodation)
- Eventual Sex Reassignment Surgery SRS: ?10,000 (inc. travel and accommodation)
- Breast augmentation: ?3000-5,000
- Misc (eg. new wardrobe): ?4,000

In total my transition will cost well in excess of ?50,000.

Oh and a few other downsides:
suicide rates are much higher for ts than the general population
Accessing health care
insurance higher or unavailable
Accessing housing. Prejudice
job market restricted, again prejudice
Oh and in case you lot didn't know
most "Day-1 women" do not look like models, porn stars, dream fantasy dates. so, by extrapolation, most transsexual women look like the majority of "Day-1 women" ie. NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THE FANTASY.

I got lucky & never faced any of the things I list, above.
But I've friends & acquaintances who have
I work successfully in in Adult sex industry.
My looks are mainly genetics & luck.
If I knew my appearance would be like the majority of women, then my career path would have to be very different.
But I absolutely would have transitioned.....Its so much easier not having to fake being a man.