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I'm glad it helps. :)
Actually, this is mildly cathartic, having an outlet for all those "should've, could've" thoughts...
Involve others with more experience.
Learn about your community.
Heal thyself.
Finally, and most importantly, you do belong.
You don't have to be presenting in your preferred gender to go to a support group. You don't have to start HRT to comment on a board. There's a pervasive sense among trans folk that there are real trans people out there and we're not they. But the moment you recognize this part of yourself you're a part of our world whether you like it or not, and all of us feel just as different. Smile, introduce yourself, and share aspects of yourself among friends who have those same parts and who are just bursting for the opportunity to talk about it with anyone who understands.
Sigh, I could ramble on, but I need to get back to work... I guess I can sum it up in promising, cross my heart, the world is a beautiful and wonderful place, and you're going to love it out here. :)
This comic is by Katie Diamond and Johnny Blazes, taken from the anthology Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. I highly recommend the book to anybody who likes this piece - it is full of everything from prose to poetry to graphic art that captures a cross-section of trans/genderqueer identities from my generation.
I have no good advice, but the book Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation contains several essays from FtM drag queens. Maybe you'll find it useful?
I have many! Here are a few:
Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote This is the book version of the authors' live show that toured in 2012. They both are nonbinary, and the stories they tell are about that.
Second Son by Ryan Sallans Ryan has been a role model of mine for a long time, so I was really excited to get his book. It's a pretty basic transition memoir, but he has a really great voice.
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein This one is a classic, and one I wish I had read much sooner! It's a transition memoir, but she also has some awesome discussions about gender in general too. Also, check out The Next Generation which is a collection of the work of trans* writers and artists.
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg I think everyone should read this. It's a memoir/fiction sort of thing, and gender and transition are shown to be much more complex than in other transition memoirs. This one is quite old though, so maybe your library already has it?
Lastly, I will suggest Red: A Crayon's Story, which is basically the sweetest story about a blue crayon that was given a red wrapper by mistake.
Not doing summaries/reviews, cause it's late and I'm tired. On request, I suppose. Mostly books, with a couple docs and a few blogs.
Less theory, more personal experiences:
Actually Theory:
And a couple links I make it a point to share whenever I can:
Here's my list so far. It's a mix of FTM-specific, general trans, and gender studies books, including essays, memoir, and more academic works. In no particular order:
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
Nina Here Nor There by Nick Krieger
Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
Nobody Passes - Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
How Sex Changed: A History of Transexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer by Riki Wilchins
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen
Genderqueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Joan Nestle
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond
Second Son by Ryan Sallans
Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
and the must-read fiction:
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
I'll edit this if I can find any others, I'm probably missing a couple. Been a big non-fiction reading year for me!
EDIT: Edited to add links, and a few more on my wish list I haven't picked up yet.
Letters for my Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect edited By Megan M. Rohrer, M.Div. & Zander Keig, M.SW.
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori B. Girshick
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Wolf Valerio
Essay time! This and this are kind of like the primer essays for 'so you're questioning, now what'. They answer a lot of questions about the experience of gender dysphoria and how it is through someone's life as well as help to reframe the situation in various ways, would strongly recommend.
Books wise, I know Whipping Girl gets recced around a lot - whether you're MtF or FtM, it has a lot to offer and is pretty good. Gender Outlaws is another great read that is pretty current / up to date in terms of what it offers and has a ton of perspectives on the situation that you might find handy. I would also highly recommend Trans Bodies, Trans Selves as a great resource to pursue.
Edit: Couple more! Check out The Genderbread Person for a quick handy look at the different ways to think about gender identity and what it means, and if that interests you then you might also be interested in the accompanying book, Guide to Gender.
> I have personally found the idea of real life experience as a requirement to be stressful, and frankly insulting to the actual life that I lead every day.
It has a lot of really wonderful personal, real-life, stories from members of the trans and gender queer community!
linkstorm incoming~
Just off the top of my head, here are some masterposts of transgender resources on tumblr:
http://helpcorgi.tumblr.com/post/78335665263/sexuality-how-to-come-out-to-your-family-with
http://germball.tumblr.com/post/74084140769/trans-resources
A lot of that is related to passing (binding, makeup, etc), but there's also some very good articles and infographics in there, including a post about YA books with LGBTQ and trans characters. I will offer a word of caution regarding tumblr, though--though there's a lot of good resources sprinkled throughout the site, the site is also home to "social justice warriors," i.e. people who take social causes to absurd extremes. For example, "feminists" who claim that men can't be raped and mock/attack male victims of domestic/sexual abuse, people who send death threats to other people simply for wearing an article of clothing from a different culture, people who want to abolish language classes because they think learning another culture's language is demeaning to that culture, people who think other people should be fired for forgetting their pronouns, people who make posts like "I hate all cishet people and they are all [insert absurd, prejudiced comment here]."
In addition, here is a link to The Gender Book, a very good resource on trans identities:
http://www.thegenderbook.com/
This wiki is devoted primarily to asexuality, but there is also information regarding genders in it:
http://www.asexuality.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
More links:
http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/03/the-genderbread-person-v2-0/
http://freethoughtblogs.com/zinniajones/
http://tranifesto.com/
http://katebornstein.typepad.com/
http://www.amazon.com/My-Gender-Workbook-Something-Entirely/dp/0415916739
http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Outlaws-The-Next-Generation/dp/1580053084
http://neutrois.me/
http://www.reddit.com/r/genderqueer
http://nonbinary.org/
http://practicalandrogyny.com/
Here's another free book about gender: http://www.guidetogender.com/
They're from Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman. It's an essential anthology in my opinion!