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Hormones and living in new gender role?

  • 24-08-2010 4:13pm
    #1
    Freiheit
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    Is this expected within a certain time after dispensing of such?....a firm commitment is expected?....would it be true that many people are already living as such long before hormonal treatment?.....Is open androgyny accepted or is one expected to produce the standard story that professionals expect to and want to hear?.


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  • #2
    Links234
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    I think (though I could be wrong here) that it's up to the individual as to when they want to live as their identified gender, and that there's no set time or expected time to go full time. Some are living as their identified gender before hormone treatment, some stay living as the sex they were assigned at birth for long after they've started hormones. It's whenever you feel ready I think

    you're only required to be living as your identified gender for a certain length of time when you're going for GRS


  • #3
    Eebs
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    There is no strict set of guidelines in the Irish system like there is in the UK but they are vaguely stuck with.

    You will need to be living in role (mostly full time) for a period of time before they usually assign hormones. Your best bet is to set up a meeting with Dr. Kelly and go from there.

    Androgyny isn't always received favorably but if you're clear on what you want and what you need you might be able to get what you want.
    I do know someone who went to the UK though because they wanted hormones but didn't want to transition beyond a point and couldn't get that here in Ireland.


  • #4
    Freiheit
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    It's very hard to say how far I want to go, if that mean's I don't meet set criteria so be it. I would like to alter my body,to reflect how I feel but I just find it very hard to visualise changing everything, by that I mean creating a new legal identity and all that goes with it. It might well come natural enough to me once I get started but is very hard to imagine from my current viewpoint. See Dr O'Shea in October.

    I also take size 11 shoe,how am I going to find that in ladies?....can be a struggle in the men's section at times.

    Pete Burns, not I stress any role model for me, is a guy who has had feminising procedures but not gender reassignment...might or might not be an option for me.


  • #5
    L.Jenkins
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    It's still a bit vague to me. Living full time, this refers to a social transition in which we would new pronouns and name to suit our new gender? I'd plan on maintaining myself in my current role until a set time after I'd begin hormones or I'm satisfied with how my body is coming along.

    Is there actually a set time to live in ones chosen gender before one can get GRS and is this the same for legally obtaining your new gender and name on all your documentation ie birthcert, passport, license etc. If it is the case with documentation, it could prove alittle awkward if I was trying to obtain a new job. I could imagine the scene if I show up looking like a full bodied female and I'm asked to provide a copy of license or other identifing document. That would be fun to explain.


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