Presenting as female

By my measure, I think I’m about half way through my transition. My hair is mostly sorted, skin looks great, I’ve developed some curves etc. Unfortunately, when I look in the mirror, I’m only really seeing hints of me as female, I seem to have to put loads of effort into it too (though maybe that’s just part of being a woman).

The thing is this though, over the last few months I have been increasingly perceived as female, even on some occasions when I have done nothing more than wear my hair in a fringe and put on sunglasses. It’s quite a pleasant surprise to appear female to strangers at this stage, I just need to work out what is creating this image and somehow capture it.

Just the other day I was taking my mum out to lunch, and a relative of my mum’s next door neighbour was in the street as we were walking to my car, he looked up as we walked toward him and said something along the lines of “Hello young ladies”; I was quite taken aback as I was just wearing jeans and a tee, no makeup or anything.

It’s going to be quite interesting to see how things develop during my immanent “real life test”.