It's been a while since my last daylog. A month and nine days after that writeup, I started hormones. It's now been a bit over three months since I started, and I officially feel fantastic. An enormous cloud of depression has lifted; I feel the best I ever have in my life. I'm currently in the process of getting my ID changed (only another few months of government form processing to go), but presenting as a woman 24/7. Other than some awkwardness at liquor stores, everything has been perfectly fine.
The main change so far has been mental. Hormones haven't done much physically yet other than make my nipples puffy, enlarged, and sore -- which admittedly is a welcome change. I'm excited to see how things progress from here.
I thought to write on Everything2 today for the first time in months because an old man offered me money for sex. He lives next door from my mom and is so old he can barely walk -- I think he's in his late 80s. He phoned me over to fix his TV today, but after I did that he stopped me from leaving, offered me $50 and started talking about how he'd like to "catch me". Wink wink. I walked away utterly speechless and thought "I need to write about this in a daylog."
...So there are some downsides to being a woman, but none that make me regret transition. Having little-to-no dysphoria makes anything worth it. Some dudes are just assholes. Like the old high school acquaintance who messaged me on Facebook a few weeks ago to ask me if I wanted to join a threesome. That was pretty gross.
I haven't been doing a ton other than make the occasional Minecraft video for YouTube (it makes for good voice training) and enjoying my newfound happiness. At some point I'm going to apply to go back to school and try to reboot my life in a new city -- the biggest downer these days is running into people who knew me as a kid, so a change of setting would be great.
Hopefully I'll start writing more again soon.