10 years.

[agent_dani]

It's been 10 years since I was able to make social transition happen. So much has happened since then - I left university IT for corporate and finally was able to have career progress (in university IT I was stuck at junior classification even when I outperformed senior coworkers,) I made 20,000 miles in cross-country motorcycle road trips, I divorced, I moved half-way across a continent and found home - queer community, family of choice, and a place where I belonged. I found the healing to love and marry again.

I remember the decades of severe opposition to my transition before that, to the point of fighting to have me institutionalized to prevent me from transitioning. All of that to stop me from having a better life.

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[cmcmck]

'They' made me wait from 15 to 21 as you know without anything to block puberty and for the first three of those years without any hormonal intervention and that double trip is something I can never forgive.

But hey! We both got where we were going in the end! :o)

[agent_dani]

To me the lack of HRT was minor compared to being outed by therapists and the institutionalization. It was clear: "we'd rather you die than even begin transition."