Thank you for sharing this ... I'll try to remember the pronoun but it won't be easy. I like the idea of trimming the beard more and more as part of it. I suspect that once you get the surgery, the beard may go quite a bit naturally.
I'll admit that I will have a terrible time pronouncing the name or spelling it.
Callista (beautiful) Chloe (blossoming) Zoe (life) Sophie (wisdom) Melody (music) Kirstin (follower of Christ)
For legal change of name, you may have to go through the courts. Get multiple copies of the final paperwork and put some in a safe deposit box. Start making lists of everywhere that you have an ID or account. When it gets done, start updating (Social Security first, then DMV, then the rest). Get a passport or a passport card with the new name as soon as you can.
You may want to get pictures of you in various states of transition so that you can show that you are who you are. Take selfies with the daily paper or something else that would be harder to fake as you do beard trim and before the surgery, after the surgery and weekly for a few months after the surgery (it takes time for those hormones to decrease in the body and stop affecting it). Again, this will help you show that you are still the same person.
After five years on an antiandrogen, the orchiectomy probably won't have much effect on my beard. I think beard growth might have slowed somewhat and it might be a little thiner, maybe -- I know axillary hair and leg hair growth both slowed way down (and scalp hair started gradually creeping back where I'd had only fuzz for a long time).
Two years on HRT is accepted as enough time for most of the changes that are going to happen to have happened. Well, at least the changes the NCAA and IOC care about -- breast growth can continue a little longer (I think I've got as much as I'm going to get, at this point -- 42B) and I'm not sure how long fat redistribution and facial remodeling continue. I'm not expecting the surgery to change much chemically except that I can finally stop taking spironalactone, the foul-tasting antiandrogen that's also a diuretic. (I'll still keep taking estradiol and progesterone.)
I had been worrying a bit about crossing the Canada/US border after shaving my beard. Your idea of photographs in stages sounds helpful.
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I'll admit that I will have a terrible time pronouncing the name or spelling it.
http://www.cutebabynames.org/greek-baby-names.aspx?originID=31
has names for Greek Girls.
Callista (beautiful)
Chloe (blossoming)
Zoe (life)
Sophie (wisdom)
Melody (music)
Kirstin (follower of Christ)
For legal change of name, you may have to go through the courts. Get multiple copies of the final paperwork and put some in a safe deposit box. Start making lists of everywhere that you have an ID or account. When it gets done, start updating (Social Security first, then DMV, then the rest). Get a passport or a passport card with the new name as soon as you can.
You may want to get pictures of you in various states of transition so that you can show that you are who you are. Take selfies with the daily paper or something else that would be harder to fake as you do beard trim and before the surgery, after the surgery and weekly for a few months after the surgery (it takes time for those hormones to decrease in the body and stop affecting it). Again, this will help you show that you are still the same person.
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Two years on HRT is accepted as enough time for most of the changes that are going to happen to have happened. Well, at least the changes the NCAA and IOC care about -- breast growth can continue a little longer (I think I've got as much as I'm going to get, at this point -- 42B) and I'm not sure how long fat redistribution and facial remodeling continue. I'm not expecting the surgery to change much chemically except that I can finally stop taking spironalactone, the foul-tasting antiandrogen that's also a diuretic. (I'll still keep taking estradiol and progesterone.)
I had been worrying a bit about crossing the Canada/US border after shaving my beard. Your idea of photographs in stages sounds helpful.
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