Last Tuesday I had my first appointment with my speech coach. We talked a bit about the state of my voice the progress I already made on my own and the bits and parts of my speech and voice which need refinement. She is quite excited, called it an adventure, and she has experience with male-to-female transsexuals, so I’m sure she’ll be able to really guide me in this. Most importantly was that she was certainly impressed by my already made progress on my voice, and of course this pleased me very much. Having an experts opinion on my voice and speech means a lot to me, but the true deal is my experience with the people around whom don’t know me but to whom I do speak and whom don’t notice anything about my voice.
It’s really a wonderful experience to have people address me and see as whom I am. And there’s more and more of them, this is the most important development in my transition since starting hormones thus far.
This is also reflected in my increased social life, I should not cower away from going even further …flirting!

On th physical side of transition things are still going steadily in the right direction. I have a feeling that my arm hair is finally becoming visably less than before HRT, but I could be wrong. What I’m not wrong about are my breasts, unlike what many girls like me experience with breast growth mine are hardly painful as what I’ve read from others. At some times there is a nagging soreness, but nothing which really bothers me.
The stage I have now arrived at with breast development allows me to show some vague cleavage for the first time, with help of the pads I mentioned in previous blogs and an other model of t-shirt bra of which I bought two this week. Beside that I don’t have any interesting physical news to come up with, some aspects simply need more time, and I’m simply a patient girl.
Interesting of the past month is that I’m increasingly involving myself in the transgender community here in the Netherlands, there’s some exciting developments concerning GenderQontrast and socially I’m also extending my network in the community.
It’s a big change from when I started the whole process when I was quite hesitant about contact with others, but I’ve come to see the value of being part of the transgender community.

Next update will be the nine month anniversary of my real-life experience, which is halfway the official term that stands for it here in the Netherlands. Then I’ll try to write some more, like about the whole process I’m in.