[AbiDrew85]

Truthfully, I would like the beard gone, I'd like all my body hair to just go away, never to return. I would like to fully transition eventually, but I know there is little hope of that happening at my age.(29) Testosterone has long since destroyed me. I have come to realize that SRS is a joke and a lie, so I have come to terms with my genitalia. I would like nothing more than to be on the outside,(for the most part) what I feel on the inside. When I first arrived here on BN, my original plan was to use herbal NBE to simply induce a bit of gyno. During the few years I've been here (half of that time spent lurking as a guest) I have been on a journey of self discovery and acceptance, aided by the information presented by this forum and all of you. The hardest part for me thus far, was coming out of the closet to myself. I know I have a long and bumpy trail ahead of me, but it beats taking the highway to misery.

Eh. I'm older than you are and I'm totally planning on doing full transition whenever it becomes possible financially to even work slowly towards it. SRS isn't a "joke" or a "lie". It's still not quite completely what we're REALLY after, but it's damn close. And even if you do get SRS in the near future, when the complete solution does come along further down the road, they'll be growing you all-new female genitalia anyways, so they'll just be cutting all of that out whether it's still in original configuration or vaginoplasty has been done. Personally, I'd rather have absolutely nothing there than what is there, so the not-quite-whole neovagina is a little better than even that alternative to my mind. And if they manage to reach the point of changing my sex fully before I get to that stage, well, you know where I'll be. They already have most of the pieces in place you know. The human genome is mapped. They already have designer retrovirus technology, so they can already change every cell in our body to XX with the second chromosome of the pair in a Barr body, the problem is that won't actually change the already developed sex characteristics, but they ALSO have successfully cloned organs from undiff stem cells, so now all they really need to do is put the two together and make sure there aren't any unforeseen complications. A few years back some women with underdeveloped or outright missing uterii had been involved in a research experiment where the researchers grew working uterii for them from their own cells, transplanted sucessfully, and these women became pregnant. So confirmation of that stage of the process has been done.

Of course, the biggest hurdles in the research have been political rather than scientific. There's the crowd who don't want us working with stem cells at all, the crowd that's against cloning even so much as organs, the anti-trans bigots... So on.