Quote Originally Posted by WarriorPrincess90 View Post
Talk about difficult! Lol. I feel ya. My friend J.T. was having a similar issue a couple years ago. It was a rough time for him, but he lives with his boyfriend now and all seems well. Only difference was that he didn't have snakes. He has yet to get the surgery, but maybe one day. FTM is super expensive though. I got to attend a very detailed lecture by a local plastic surgeon on it. I was shocked by how much more FTM cost than MTF. Best of luck! If you ever want to talk about it feel free to PM me. I have several friends who have gone/are going through the process.
Good luck on the puppy! I've always said that my animals and I are a package deal, no way am I giving them up just because I want to "settle" for someone.

Yea, living in conservative-town (Amishville ) I'm not likely to find too many winners here, but we'll see where the wind takes me once I get out of college. Congrats to your friend, I love hearing stories end happily like that. I'm still in the beginning stages, my parents didn't take too kindly to it when I dropped the bomb on them (which is funny, my sisters said they expected something like that for a while now) so I'm sort of spinning my wheels trying to figure out where to go from here.

The surgeries are expensive and it's like pulling teeth. A lot of doctors won't do the "top" surgery (removal of the breasts) or the hysterectomy unless you can either prove that there's something wrong with your "parts" or you're X age and have had Y amount of kids and are Z financially stable blah blah blah. And then you have the problem of how difficult it is to find a good surgeon for the "bottom" surgery (shouldn't need explaining there ) and covering the expenses... and deciding whether you want to go overseas for the procedure or not. And, of course, you've got the problem that the surgery hasn't caught up to what MtF's can get in terms of how much function/feeling you get out of it... all around MtF's have a very difficult time being accepted into society, but FtM's have a hard time actually making the change.