one long day, four doctors and

I submit my legal name change paperwork and START HORMONES(!) TOMORROW(!!!)

suddenly more than a year of being stalled at the top of the lift hill and it turns out this is a launch coaster that was just waiting for maintenance

with my insurance it's super affordable, and I should even still be able to eat bananas (I know it sounds like a silly side note but it was a Thing)

I feel lighter, laughing crying and twirling

eeeEEE!

also out of nowhere completely unprompted and coincidentally someone from my trans meetup group offered me a spot for four hours of complimentary professional voice training?!!

THIS WORLD.
IT CAN BE PRETTY GREAT.

THANK YOU everyone here who believed in me from the beginning and showed me what was possible and kept me going even when it was so so so hard. who knows how long it would have taken me without yous. I bet the future is going to rule so hard, y'all.