I know a couple of couple of post-op trans women, and saw one of them this morning. With Phil's crazy electrolysis schedule and befurred taint still on my mind, I asked her about electrolysis, and how long it had taken her. (She was 18 when she started presenting herself as a woman and getting her beard hair zapped, 23 when she began medically transitioning with testosterone blockers and HRT, 29 when she finally had SRS surgery, and is in her mid-30s now. And, with the exception of the surgery, she managed all of this while living in a fairly conservative mid-sized city.)
She said she started with her face, and focused on getting rid of beard hair because that was so crucial to a feminine appearance. Since she was still young and didn't have a thick beard, it took her a little less than a year and a half to eradicate it, and she doesn't have the rough, big-pored facial skin that's a telltale sign of transitioning at a later age. The testosterone blockers helped a lot by reducing active beard growth.
When she finally got the greenlight for surgery, it was scheduled a full year in advance. So she went back to an hour a week of electrolysis appointments to get rid of pubic hair. She was pretty much done in five or six months, with a handful of follow-up appointments to get the remaining strays. So when her surgery date rolled around, she was clean and ready to go.
I told her I'd encountered an Internet Crazy who claimed they were going in for multiple electrolysis sessions each week, and 2-3 hour sessions at that, and had been for months, and the look on her face?--LOL. Then she asked, "Are they a Wookiee? Is Sasquatch transitioning? Because I can't imagine even the hairiest Italian girl needing that much electrolysis. And 2-3 hour sessions? How did they find an electrologist willing to do that? Sounds like bullshit to me."
This woman's pretty much the anti-troon: responsible, employed, hygienic, and has taken great pains to not only pass, but be attractive. She had to jump through so many hoops just to get on hormones, then to even get considered for surgery, but she persisted while still holding down a full-time job and paying her rent and buying groceries without resorting to e-beggary. So there you have it.
