[Heaven's Night]

Becoming passable is kinda peculiar with the way it works. Its easy to overestimate how well it works, but its also not as insanely difficult as people often make it to be, women aren't all the same, women aren't all hyper feminine tiny little dolls either. Beauty is not the same thing as ability to pass for a cis woman.

The most important things that make it is lack of overly masculine features, voice is a huge huge deal, and feminine enough body language. The rest is mostly worn and painted on. One thing people tend to stay silent about which can make or break is body shape, once body proportions become fem enough, its almost automatic pass unless something else messes it up. Realistic take on it would be to give it three to five years to work out, that's plenty of time for HRT and arranging surgeries where needed and plenty of time to work for it. Most of it is just hard work, the rest is being patient.

The notion that you would need to be super pretty, tiny or hyper feminine to pass is bunch a BS. I'm sure you can pull off the gym lady look if you work hard for it and just give HRT time to work. It can be way better than you imagine at first and likely you wont need gazillion dramatic surgeries for it either. Nor for becoming pretty as most of it is always performative and skills that anyone can learn. Also, when thinking about transition goals, the best goal is peace of mind living in a body worth living which feels like home. We're just altering our space suits to match who we are, so that's the number one goal there is. Peace of mind.