* Please note I don't update as regularly as others do on Flickr. I post pics when I see or need to verify that something has changed about me by the hormones or my own feminising hard work. ( Amongst the other pics ) So I can then compare and see the differences that have occurred. Then I know I'm on the right track and all this hard work is paying off.. ( I do try to update more regular than I do. But real life and constant illness and ailments are constantly getting in the way of those plans as I'm getting older!! ) * :-)

My bio and brief-ish history below....

I'm a 50 something post-op Transwoman living in the East of the UK. ( Originally from Derby my birth place )

I've always known I was Trans. But thought I was just another regular Crossdresser, and certainly knew what one was by the age of 8.

I put on my first item of female clothing (by myself) at 12. ( I had been dressing before then. But it was my sister who was using me as her dress-up doll until I was 4. )

I was experimenting with clothing and make-up I found around the house from the age of 12 by myself. Dressing in secret in my family home all through my teenage years. ( I could be classed as a "Crossdressing veteran" by the time I was 16!! lol )

I then dressed regularly ( Averaged 3-5 times a week. When real life stuff didn't get in the way. ) But as much as I could for the next 30+ years. ( Even through my married life, with my Ex-partners support and knowledge. )

Living the life as a "Out and About" Crossdresser ( But in secret from my family and friends. ) was extremely frustrating and hard for me to do in all those decades. As I knew I wanted 'something more' out of my dressing. But kept resisting the obvious thought/reason of me going full time and transitioning when it reared it's head and had those 'discussions' with my partner then. It was totally unthinkable and beyond my realms of achieving that goal every time the thought raised it's head within me all through those years.

All my family and friends eventually got to know I 'dressed' and had all seen me crossdressed by 2006. ( They were all ok with me 'dressing'. But when I made the ultimate decision to transition. They all didn't want to know me straight away. Or couldn't cope with me being Dianne when they met her for the first time. So they, for all their various reasons did not want to see me again. So did my transition alone with no support from anyone. A very hard road to walk alone I can tell you. )

My partner and I divorced in 2007 ( Non trans related. We split and divorced on good terms and still speak to one another etc to this day. )

We had been together in a relationship for 21 years. Seventeen of them were of us married with a daughter. ( Whom I have no contact with or my grandchildren either. )

At aged 41 ( 2007 ) I gave in to my ongoing worsening mental conflict/war/highly destructive depression and Gender Dysphoria that were plaguing me and mentally crippling me as they intensified and got worse . ( My life long depression was from other factors in my life. ) But didn't start transitioning as such then. ( I just made the decision to transition to myself and accept I needed to in the very near future. ) Then suddenly a lot of 'limitating factors' in my life disappeared over a couple of months that were my reasons for not transitioning in that year. So I finally had no excuses or reasons for not doing it anymore, but to go full-time.

( I was left with the choices of either Transitioning or committing suicide when this new reality was revealed to me. This was the ultimate decision facing me Having struggled all my life trying to live that dual life. )

So I started Transitioning in Sept 2008.

Since making that ultimate decision to transition in Sept 2008. My life has transformed beyond any recognition from what it used to be. ( Having to transition alone without any support from anyone close to me actually helped in the long run for me. As it 'toughen me up' and gave me the resolve to see the transition through to the end and especially coping with the GRS and all it's associated worries and so forth post op and of course the absolutely painful time of having to dilate at the beginning!! )

It wasn't easy for me to transition with my Gender Clinic. Because I had different physical limitations/circumstances than they were used to. They put me through extra hurdles to get over by them. In the process between us, we set up another treatment path for people like me.

I was also the first person on their list to have gone through their treatment path without doing the 'Real Life Test'. Because of doing a different treatment path with them.

Again doing the transition alone and the 'toughening up' I did got me through any hurdle or obstacle they threw at me. I basically gave them back what they chucked at me and some!! lol At the beginning of being very wary and not believing me. They became very impressed with how consistent I had been with them from day one of our meeting and had not faltered one bit with them in my resolve to be Dianne. I'm extremely happy being the woman I worked so hard to be and it's ongoing continuance to this day!! Transitioning was the best decision I ever made.

My life makes sense now. Life is possible instead of impossible.

I took my first female hormone tablet in Apr 2010 and have never looked back on the changes that followed. ( On patches now )

I got my GRC in Nov 2012 that made me legally female.

I had my GRS in June 2013 to function correctly ( In body and mind ) and in this world as the woman I have always felt I was. ( All my treatment has been on the NHS and my surgery done at Charing Cross Hospital. )

I married my wonderful Husband in 2015 who loves me as much as I love him :-)

Nowadays I just live the life of a humble traditional housewife!!! lol

I have now opened a flickr group

the link is..

www.flickr.com/groups/diannes_dressing/