[One Year of Transition]

This is quite a bit later than the one year mark, but I will catch up from the “About Isaac” page to the end of the first year of transition.

The beginning of my coming out as Transgender was a little rushed but at the same time slow to arrive. Having gotten hesitantly involved in the USU GSA L.I.F.E. (Love is for Everyone) with my at the time girlfriend, I had grown a lot and been able to learn more about the alphabet soup that comprises the aptly named Queer community. GLBT is the basic format and I had known very little about the Transgender section until I saw a couple of documentaries during these meetings. Namely the movie “You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men” helped to create the light bulb turning on or the pieces falling into place for me.

I started to think more about who I was, who I wasn’t, who I wanted to be and what I was willing to do about all of those things.
I ended up making the decision to transition. I researched it in my own free time and finally built up the courage to tell my girlfriend. I needed more, so I also talked to the GLBTA Services director, who was honest in telling me that she had no experience in my type of situation but that we would make sure I got set up with any and all the help there was to get. Working on getting a jumpstart for transition was a secret for a much shorter period of time than anticipated. Perhaps a month, probably less, before I was unable to contain the words from close friends. Something like that does not stay quiet once a few individuals know it and before I was able make sure that my girlfriend, closest friends and even myself were ready to start transition the cat was out of the bag.

I came out as Trans very slow in October of 2007. By December I was out to friends and my immediate family. By February I was seeing a counselor for personality assessments and psychological tests. By March I was seeing a doctor to discuss options for hormone therapy. April 4, 2008 was the first day of my hormones and I have not regretted it yet.

Hormones incited a much greater change within me. The choice to begin transition is much different than the actual start of the thing. With a goal having been actualized, I was able to jump start other aspects of my life and get back on track for college and career. By starting my transition in that manner I was able to bring up and deal with a lot of repressed memories and pain, get them out of the way and decide where I wanted to go next. The first year of transition saw massive emotional changes, muscle growth, fat loss, voice deepening and body hair growth. I will merely link you to the first video I made of myself and the one near the first year marker. You will easily see the differences between the two periods.

Don’t judge my YouTube vlog debut.

Here is the one year on “T” video.