At Some Point

The almost always certain rule about transitions:

At some point in a transition the woman stops thinking of herself as transitioning and describing herself as trans-something and simply thinks and feels of herself as a woman. And at that point, she starts her life over and everything before is forgotten.

At that point she erases everything she did to identify as trans-something and just lives her life as a real honest person and woman. It almost always happens, and it's why they disappear in the society as any other ordinary woman.

Only those who are openly out or public about their trans-something history can't erase it and they're stuck with the stupid little adjective the rest of their life, that "transgender" woman. All the rest just get on with the life without it.

And so it should be, but don't leave those who were your friends during your transition behind to wonder why you left them without a word. They were there for you then and they can still be there for you now.

Give Thanks

For all those women transitioning and happy when they get to start Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and get the effects and results of HRT, give thanks you can take the drugs, for there are some who want to transition as much, if not more, than you and can't tolerate HRT without serious adverse side effects.

Give thanks you get the changes which are often miraculous over months and especially years, for those who can't take HRT can't get the changes to make their transition better and easier. Give thanks you can and be accepting of those who can't.

Give thanks you can smile as your body changes from male to female as best that HRT can accomplish, for there are those who can't smile because they can't get and won't get the changes to make their transition better and easier.

Give thanks. You can change. Some can't give thanks. Some can't change.