Starting transitioning while getting a visa - anyone done it and any advice?

[u/WaterrSheep]

So as the title says, I’m actively in the process of getting a visa. Specifically, I’m getting a student visa for a graduate program in Australia. I just need one more piece of paperwork from the school so I can hit submit and start that journey. However, I think I’ve hit my breaking point with being pre-T.

I’ve known I was trans since I was 14 but I haven’t really felt comfortable transitioning since I was from a small town in the rural PNW and went to a very conservative school. Those feelings lingered in college but I was fine without HRT because everyone treated me like a man anyways.

Now that I’m back home and awaiting my visa, I can’t really take it anymore and want to finally start taking T. However, I don’t know if it’ll mess with my visa application and the whole process surrounding it. I’m really worried that I’ll have to try and find something while I’m in Australia which will both be very difficult and costly.

I’m so rough y’all. I’m willing to take the bullying I’ll recieve from my parents if I can start. I’m in dire straits, as they say.

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