Fact of the matter is "hey, I have uncertain feelings about my gender identity I want to discuss with a therapist who can help me make sense of them" and "I would like to change my sex characteristics" are two separate healthcare issues that can and should be provided independent of each other
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Those kinds of clinics exist?
Nuh-uh. I don't believe you.
Cis people being based?
🤨
Service B is a bodily autonomy right that cannot depend on fitting the "correct" mold psychologically
That is a problem, especially with institutional "we don't treat nonbinary people" practices added to that.
The amount of times the absence of bottom dysphoria made me questions if I’m really trans is way too much. And I didn’t have to fight anyone but myself.
I would probably have given up on the idea and lived a miserable and short life, pretending to be a man.
And it’s like, okay?? Anything better than what I was (a man at the time) like I’m in the desert I don’t care if the water is desani vs deer park brand give it to me
- Service A can, voluntarily, be part of figuring out which elements of service B someone wants to access
- Service B should not, ever, involve its own psychological "screening" process.
Have you met a fucking teenager?
…Huh, that’s also how they run the government.
Btw, I can say from direct personal experience that in American medical schools we do learn according to SOC8.
Which left me to wait another month before being put on a 2 year waitlist for an appointment solely to discuss and make sense of it.
Truth: Even adults have to navigate their way through a labyrinth of specialists to even be *considered* for any of that.