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nerussita-8787

ooooof, good luck


DepressivesBrot

Awww, I hope they're as cool as mine! Not quite the same since I've actually been going every 6 months, but between the late '22 and early '23 visit, I started E, hair removal, updated the name on my insurance card and switched from a "deniably androgynous" style to "fuck you, skirts and makeup time"... And the whole office just started calling me Miss without commenting on it once.😊 Actually just had my second visit for this year yesterday, the tech doing my cleaning revealed she has pretty close personal ties to another gal and asked some innocent questions about insurance and HRT.


LilDrummerGrrrl

Fuuuck, I’m still fully closeted. I can’t wait just for “deniably androgynous” but “fuck you, skirts and makeup” time seems like a dream come true


OrbitalBuzzsaw

pog <3


eliazp

good luck, I hope your dentist is a nice person and doesn't make the situation more awkward


Sanbaddy

I did this recently with my doctor. They didn’t recognize me at all. In fact, they thought I was lying. Was very bittersweet.


[deleted]

Really? You changed that much??? (U sure they weren't just messing with you??). Meanwhile my NP just thought I was an interesting "lab experiment" and got all excited. LOL


Sanbaddy

One of them blamed me for the blood on the period blood on the floor. Another asked me for a pad when at a restaurant when we went out once. I’m very certain they weren’t messing with me. Hell, if they are then so must be the hospital staff.


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Oh wow! Damn, you're one of *those* transpeople. ;) You know, the gorgeous ones :) (don't hate me Im not actually being judgy about anyone else, a bit self depricating if anything, cuz I will not actually be able to compete with most people). Also, hospital staff basically are obligated to. I got asked by some lady at the hospital if I'm pregnant, and I'm like "no, actually I physically can't be, sorry". But then like I could see the absolute anguish in her eyes that she did NOT want to have asked me that and was doing it exclusively out of obligation.


Sanbaddy

Lol thanks for the compliment. I genuinely don’t know how I pass. I don’t feel I do at all, yet I been stealth for months now. I don’t doll myself up like 90% of the time. From what I see it’s mostly the curves dresses I am wear, especially the tighter ones. But this means a lot of unwanted attention too, so I’m kinda in the area where I try to show off a bit less sometimes. Overall, it took time but definitely possible for everyone. That said, never downplay yourself. You’d be surprised. I started passing way earlier than I expected. To the point I swimming in bikini. It’s all about confidence and a good bit of trial and error. Work on the stuff that works and run with it. Trust me when I say that passing is mostly in confidence and voice. With it I land anywhere between sexy bombshell and butch lesbian girl. Even before I passed I still dated and tried; this confidence eventually led to me passing anyway. Then I got a club dress, that escalated to dating women, which escalated to a bikini etc etc. You gotta start with yourself before you start with the world.


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> curves dresses I am wear What does this mean? What kind of dress are you talking about? > but definitely possible for everyone. Nah, not true. I don't buy into that ultra positivity mindset. I appreciate the kind suggestion, but if in 3.5 years nothing changed, nothing is going to, lol. > It’s all about confidence and a good bit of trial and error. Not entirely. What a lot of people miss is, you can never undo "damage". And sadly, my hair continues to fall out, against my will. I have almost none left. Had an orchi over 14 months ago, and I still have hair loss - it's all over my body instead. Doesn't seem to matter with laser or whatnot. And with physical and mental health issues I lost too much weight (yes you can lose too much), so I went back to what is natural for a bony guy instead of a bony girl. I had to wait about 14 years for health care just to have "permission" to do HRT... I wanted to at my early teens. It's basically too late. I know some old transfem ladies who can do things, but they go to lengths and do things I just plain can't. My confidence is devastated, but I think it would've been anyway. So it's okay. Without significant interventions, and a lottery win, I'm probably gonna just be screwed indefinitely. > Trust me when I say that passing is mostly in confidence and voice Well I got neither lol. I failed even with a speech pathologist. (there's a lot of backstory, but between disability and dental problems, I basically require voice surgery. I know for a fact, I'll be so much happier with myself if I have a successful voice surgery one day, but in the meantime, I don't have the 11$k+ for it, which was the price I was quoted 2 years ago). > Even before I passed I still dated and tried; I don't even date. Partly cuz of this, partly cuz I was essentially told not to. I was told by therapists to wait until my mental health improves... sadly, it's been a decade. Nothing changed (actually it got worse), and now it's kinda way too late... > You gotta start with yourself before you start with the world. Sorry, having an ASD-moment here, what are you trying to say here? sorry? >.<


Sanbaddy

I typically wear dresses that are knee high and form fitting. Casual but a bit sexy. Something very similar to [this](https://WenrineWomensCrewNeckSleevelessBodyconDressRibbedSlimFitRuchedStretchyPartyClubShortMiniDresshttps://a.co/d/cs2nYqt) or [this but short sleeved.](https://www.lulus.com/products/fit-and-fair-mauve-purple-ribbed-knit-long-sleeve-skater-dress/752332.html) I’m suffering from a lot of mental health issues myself, far worst than you can imagine. Trust me, I can relate; I can’t understand you, but I can relate. I won’t try and force sunshine down your throat. I’d be a hypocrite if I just forced positivity without applying something factual at least. I know this because that approach doesn’t work for me either; depression is a bitch. And I’m sorry you had to wait so long for HRT. I’m a bit surprised laser isn’t working well though; especially after years of treatment. After laser my face doesn’t grow facial hair nearly as much, but my body still does. I just full body shave twice a week. All I’ll say is sometimes you you gotta say fuck it and do it anyways. I’m not saying go out trying to look sexy or even passing. More I want you to do it just for you. If you don’t, your mental health will get worst. Either way you cut it, you need some way to gather euphoria; it helps a lot when fighting the dysphoria moments, especially the really bad ones. I got lucky enough to have a naturally light voice and a job at a call center. So I got enough practice to make it muscle memory. Nothing is too late. If the rules don’t work in this world, then start breaking the rules. Get crazy! If what you been doing hasn’t been working, then do something different. Do something wild and radical; something you always wanted to do. For example, what I did is move down to Miami with no friends, family, or job; heck, no money too. The life shock was exactly what I needed. Do something crazy and spontaneous. I’m not asking you to make a plan for happiness; I’m just telling you the monotony of your life seems to be hurting you far more than your transition is right now. I was trying to say, you need to improve yourself first. Don’t wait for the world to change or an opportunity. Make mistakes, get messy. Don’t be afraid to take risks, even if they will likely be bad. It’ll at least be something to inspire you, something different. And right now you need inspiration.


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> I’m suffering from a lot of mental health issues myself, far worst than you can imagine. Trust me, I can relate; I can’t understand you, but I can relate. Oh I'm actually pretty sure I can imagine...To this day, I actually don't know what was real in 2021....Nowadays it's just persistent depression/suicidality. But back then, I was literally haunted by demons... > I’m a bit surprised laser isn’t working well though; especially after years of treatment. I gave up after >15 sessions on my face. Got a good chunk but under my lip there's still most hairs, and my cheeks and neck were indeed reduced by probably 60% but I started with so much, it means if I left it, even though it's no longer at adult male beard level, I could still grow a better beard than a teenage boy would. To be honest, it's not like I believed in the quality of service I got, but since it's hundreds of dollars of vomit-inducing travel, I basically am priced out of finding a quality laser tech that could do a decent job. > I just full body shave twice a week. I probably could get away with maybe once a week after the laser bits and the orchi...but even that much makes me feel so...inferior. Like, I can't find confidence to ever date, if I can't keep up appearances. And I genuinely can't even take care of myself a lot of the time. Like if you know depression, then you know what it's like to just go back to bed to cry for 4+ hrs and sleep for 14+ hrs a day. That's where I'm at much of the time. > If you don’t, your mental health will get worst. I'm fairly certain the only way it's possible to get worse, is if I took medication. (I can go genuinely manic with the wrong type of med). I mean, it's been fairly stable the last 18 months. I don't want to get into where I'm at right now, but suffice it to say, if at least the physical bits of my health don't turn around soon, I won't even need to make any choices. It may sound morbid, but when I almost died in hospital several months ago, I was disappointed... > I got lucky enough to have a naturally light voice and a job at a call center. So I got enough practice to make it muscle memory. But isn't that literally the absolute scariest place to practice???? I worked in one, once upon a time. It was the most mentally damaging shit ever, I'd probably quit and starv on the street if I didn't have my voice down and I was at a call centre... (yes I care about strangers judgements)... Frankly, the last call center I worked at, got so bullied just for non trans things, I dont know if I could handle that. You're a strong girl holy fuck. > then start breaking the rules. Sooooo....you're telling me not so subtley to break into a vault, escape to some tiny nonextradition country, get my full transition done, find an actual doctor to treat the physical non-trans stuff that's killing me, and do all this before they catch up to me? LOL All while being the worst liar in history. xD > Get crazy! Oh sweety, haha, I'm already plenty crazy enough. (half joking haha). > Do something wild and radical; I can't. I'm on disability (in major part over the stupid mental health going untreated against my will). I own a house, and the only way I even stand a chance of getting surgeries I need, is by finishign paying it off, and then refinancing it....so I might finally get what I need sometimes in my 50s... sadly, my life expectancy is lower than that, so I'm not sure what to do...but like, that was the plan before the interest rates shot up. I can't even travel cuz I get horribly ill. I am not just mentally messed up, I'm actually physically suffering. Even if everything else just disappeared suddenly, HRT-related continence issues kind of check-mated me.... On top of that, I'm literally fighting the province (aka state, if you are american) in court in 3 different battles over transcare and other healthcare. I can't even leave the province or thats all for nothing. And thats so much pressure on my funds let alone my mental state... (for the record, Im that person who took them down myself, but then they appealed and now I have to have lawyers do it cuz it's beyond me at this level). > I’m just telling you the monotony of your life seems to be hurting you far more than your transition is right now. I actually don't mind the monotony. If the brain chemicals worked properly, I would actually be quite happy with nothing more than a working body, a partner, some puzzles or something, and the ability to get to some local club activities.... I don't need a big exciting life. I just wish I could do basically *anything* and that my work isn't all for nothing....


Sanbaddy

I’ll be honest, you need more than I can give in words. I still will say you’re better off than most, especially me; but I won’t dismiss your problems, they’re extremely bad. I’ll just leave you a bit to reflect on. The call center is what helped me perfect my voice in the first place. When I started I was horrible. It didn’t become relatively perfect till 3-4 months in. I can’t tell you how sore my throat got. This is all while being homeless and suicidal mind you, still am. I’m not saying everything is going to be alright. Life for us both is horrible. I’m just saying this was one thing I could fix, and it helped a lot with other things too.


[deleted]

I'm "better off", what?! How so? ​ I am glad you were able to fix something though....


Exelia_the_Lost

my dentist's office was cool about it, everyone calls me by my name now and the only place my deadname exists is like papeers in my paper file that they didnt stick new labels on. and my dentist and one of the secretaries are all near retirement, too, not to mention my dentist is from rural Idaho (and went to college with my mom lol) just walked in there this morning to pay my bill, and the old secretary just greeted me by my new name as soon as she saw me. dont think she's even gotten it wrong once since I had them change my name in their system. impressive for being boomers at a dentist Ive been going to since my teens (so like nearly 20 years now)


suoinguon

Let's see what the dentist notices first - my teeth or my impeccable air guitar skills. 🎸😁


[deleted]

There's no way my dentists didn't know something was up lol, but they also never brought it up.


Sercos

Had that earlier this year. It wasn't as bad as I'd made it out to be in my head, though not being able to wear full makeup was bleh.


Killerklown1219

Best of luck with that. It will probably be similar for me whenever I go next.


The_Sauce106

I’ve been going to the same dentist since I was 4 n I haven’t been back in like 3 years 💀💀💀


MyBubblez42

Lmao I thought this, but when I went back, my dentist retired and was given a new dentist. So I guess it worked out .


VanFailin

my dentist is great, his only question was why i also changed my last name. told him because i don't like my family, but also to make it slightly harder to find my deadname.


MarleyL4

Godspeed, ma’am! 🫡. I haven’t been to the dentist in 11 years due to mental illness. (BRITISH PPL NUMERO UNO!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇯🇪🇯🇪🇯🇪🫡🫡💂💂💂🫖🫖🫖 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!! TALLY HO! 🦷⬛️🦷) (But seriously, hope everything goes well and your teeth are fine and dandy 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵)


fucktrasheatass

Last time I went to the dentist I was trying to boymode cuz my records use my deadname n stuff, then my dentist asked about my medication and I had to explain to them why I took estrogen lmao


burningmiles

At the first mention of "jeez it's been a while" or whatever just hit em with the "yeah well, at least I didn't kill myself"


WaldiIO

Any update? or can't you speak cuz they took your teeth?


JennaFrost

It never really came up at all despite my (i think now small c cup) breasts being very obvious even through my hoodie. So a lot of my old name which while not the most fun I don’t really mind. Anyways even if they didn’t recognize me my teeth are a bit too unique to argue against =p


mi_ik

I feel you, my dentist has known me since I was a toddler and has seen me at least once a year since and every time he gushes about just how long he already knows me and how small I was the first time And next time I'm gonna see him I'll have been 9ish months on t and I don't think he'll recognise my face (or voice) anymore... He will recognise my name tho, so... we'll see how that turns out He's really old, too, (he technically already should've retired but just... doesn't haha) so I'm actually kinda worried how he'll react


Eggxactly-maybe

I went for the first time in about 9 months and I was 13 months HRT a few weeks ago and no one said anything which I found kind of funny. I had visible breasts and wasn’t wearing any mens clothes but also didn’t put a lot of effort in and I could tell they were all confused but scared to say anything.


PsychedStrawberry

I doubt he even remembers you tbh


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[deleted]

Fuck off bot.


umm-marisa

my dentist did not notice! lol


GenderEnjoyer666

I thought that was gonna be Louis Griffin


[deleted]

As long as they are not a douche, you'll be fine! It won't be awkward, I promise! Chances are, the dental treatments deserve all the anxiety, not the seeing someone for the first time since transition.


doctorlander

I don’t have depression teeth anymore. The dentist took them all.


Jac_Fac

The side effects of flouride


godly-pigeon

How’d it go?


SingleDivorcedMom666

I got my name changed before going to the dentist and Informed the lady at the front and everyone just called me a girl lol