I just registered last night but I've been lurking the board for a few years now. I'm an MTF who is into hard rock music, video games, ballet and cheesy comedy movies.

About my transition, I can't find any therapists in my area I'm comfortable talking with, so I'm pre HRT (minus some estrogen I did self med and ran out ) and pre transition. I am having severe difficulty with an overactive sex drive. More often than not I cannot get anything accomplished in the morning without having an orgasm, which is infuriating. However through this site I found Dr Mark Arnkoff's website and am scheduled for a bilateral orchiectomy on the 22nd

I wish for you the best possible outcome for your scheduled surgery.

Having looked at your profile information, I can understand the difficulty of putting on a masculine front; doing that was so difficult for me that I never really tried it.

I have wondered, occasionally and only briefly, if I ought to revise my profile inner gender identity, to "post-menopausal female."

Do tell us how that goes. I have been interested in visiting him as well if I ever manage to scrape together the funds.

I'm thinking the worst part of it is going to be the drive and the monday after as I'll have school from 11AM until 8 PM 2 days after having them removed lol.

I'm driving from a small town sixty miles northwest of Boston (give or take) to southfield michigan, and driving 170 miles out of my way to avoid 2 canadian border crossings on a friday afternoon (I can't imagine them being pleasant, and I'm probably saving time in the long run) Roughly 14 and a half hours each way. Fun