OldEggNewTricks

Oh! Good idea!

I should get some pretty belts 🤩

Yeah, it lets the cats come in and out of the bedroom at night without having to open the door for them.

🐱 (cat)

The label's in Chinese, but the internet tells me it's 60% Rayon. (I got it as part of my shotgun "buy everything cheap and girly on Amazon" experiment)

Now that you mention it, the collar might be why I don't feel too stupid wearing it. I'm used to seeing my face sitting above a collar, but the whole thing is obviously feminine which keeps the dysphoria at bay.

Yay, thanks for the update!

Same! I know there must be some kind of selection bias, but it's encouraging.

Given that I currently look like a recently-shaved walrus in a dress, if I'm not supermodel-grade this time next year, who do I speak to about a refund?

Hiya, and congratulations! Newbie here.

Now that I'm no longer using junk food and booze to fill the gaping void in my life, I'm slowly but steadily losing weight (for the first time ever) - went down a belt notch today :) I wonder if my man boobs will stay to give me a head start?

Plus, first laser session in a few hours. Bye bye, beard!

There's an important difference between recognizing that things are better / easier now, and ridiculing people who transitioned in a less supportive environment, particularly for their appearance. The latter would seem like a pretty bad attitude to me; perhaps your comments come across with a nuance that you didn't intend?

Hopefully future generations will be more understanding and look at us with sympathy and compassion rather than mockery.

Ouch! That reminds me of one of the episodes which led to my egg cracking...

Scene: me, out drinking with some friends who just happen to all be women (no hint there, obviously). Fairly well-oiled at this point.

Me: Since everyone else is a girl, maybe I should just become one too, ha ha!
Fren (surprised): Where did that come from? Are you transgender? That's cool if you are, I'm bi by the way.
Me: Ha ha no, only joking, just felt like the odd one out that's all, let's change the subject right now...
Me (to self): fuck fuck fuck where did that come from, I mean I do want to be a girl, but cis people don't say that kind of thing, dumbass

Get home; wake up with hangover and gender crisis.

Thanks :)

~~Definitely not trans~~

~~OK, possibly a bit trans~~

You caught me :3

Just about collected enough of a wardrobe that doesn't look awful on me (ie the right size and not hyper-feminine) so that I can dress in women's clothes all the time. Plus a growing pile of "don't wear outside the house" and "possibly when I'm a different shape" reserves :) Wearing my old men's stuff feels uncomfortable, so I threw most of it out except for a few items in case I need to emergency-stealth.

Makeup turns out to be not as obvious to other people than I thought! Went out the other day with eyebrow pencil, mascara and some light eye shadow, and even my wife (who in theory knows what I look like) couldn't tell what I had used.

Otherwise it's hurry up and wait. Consultation for laser this week, and maybe I can get on the list at the gender clinic for counseling in October (a GID diagnosis is required where I live).

You just blew my mind. I mean, I realize it must take a lot of knowledge and practice to get a good result, but...

Wow, if I could get whatever design in exactly my size...