November 23, 2009 6:17 AM GMT
Hello! I am Jennifer.
I am a 22 year old MtF transsexual that has been in transition for over a year. Life has been going very nicely for me since my transition, although I have been hitting some bumpy roads since I discovered that I am an addict. Even so, things are getting even better for me as I work through the steps in my recovery from my addiction. My transition and status as a transsexual used to be the biggest most important thing in my life. Now I feel like that is just a little different about me and nothing really special, since my recovery from my addiction has become the primary focus in my life. I pass just fine most of the time, and am still working on my voice, but my voice these days almost never gives me away unless I am very relaxed. My name is legally Jennifer, and I am completely full time female since last February, so almost a year now. Currently working full time to get myself out of debt so that I can start saving up for my SRS.
Lesse, what else... I was in the US Navy for almost 3 years, but became very depressed and ended up getting myself an Honorable / Medical discharge for having Gender Identity Disorder. I then started hormones at 21 years old, August 21st, 2008. I keep a transition timeline at my website
http://www.thehoneykitten.com, just click on "Timeline." Can see a few interesting things there. I also have a blog at
http://thehoneykitten.blogspot.com/, but that is mostly about my recovery from my addiction. I do sometimes talk about my gender or transition though. I am actually very grateful that I am transsexual, since I firmly believe that thanks to that I have been spared a considerable amount of pain. I would likely be about 10 times worse of an addict than I am, and generally would be a complete wreck. But thanks to the isolation that I went though thanks to being so uncomfortable in my body I did not have many friends, so I didn't get involved in drugs, and I wasn't able to engage in sexual activity (much) so I didn't get STDs (or pregnant, if I had been born as a cisgirl), and I didn't give a damn what I looked like so I didn't develop an eating disorder. I come from a family of addicts, and was extremely neglected as a child because my parents cared about their addictions more than me, so I couldn't have gotten away from ending up as an addict myself if I wanted to (oh wait, I do, oh well.) My being transe only adds another dimension of issues into the mix, but thankfully reduced the severity of my addictive issues considerably. Thank god for being a transsexual!!!
Anyway, I could go on talking about myself for forever (and I do, in my blog
) so I am going to go ahead and cut this short here. Hello everyone, I look forward to making new friends here!
Jennifer
