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I am not sure how long I will try this herbal pathway to transition, I do have an appointment with my primary care physician in late July as well as getting set up with my local VA health care gender affirming care team which will walk me through everything the v/a has to offer for gender affirming care. So there may be a good chance instead of starting herbal supplements as the beginning of my transition, that I might end up on legitimate HRT sometime late summer/early fall.  

We will see. But until then my plan is to run a b.o. based program to start off with, since I feel the affects will be slower than HRT and this will give my spouse sometime, time to come to terms and do what ever she feels she needs to do, also time to see that changes won't happen over night and that the physical and mental changes could be for the better. As far as I'm concerned I feel the changes would be for the better but I know that is my biased opinion for myself and partly a selfish opinion as well. She is on the opposite side of this and where I see a positive she may see a negative outcome, but who knows. 

That's why I feel a slow start with open communication will benefit us both.