What I envision for competent gender identity psych care is like. Someone who's familiar with the ways repressing queer identity can fuck you up, and can help make sense of it at an accelerated pace compared to dipping in and out of trans discords to traumadump, get scared and leave to repress again
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Service A benefits from not dangling service B as a "reward" for giving the "right" answers.
Service B is a bodily autonomy right that cannot depend on fitting the "correct" mold psychologically
Service B is a bodily autonomy right that cannot depend on fitting the "correct" mold psychologically
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If the therapist is a gatekeeper they provide zero help and kick the patient out.
If the therapist is independent and competent, they can help make sense of the worry instead.
A therapist can help with that more effectively than a bunch of equally scared hatchlings.
"All this doubt, maybe they're not trans" no my brain is just wired worse than a 1950s rambler.