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uncanny-tranny · 2 months ago

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This pissed me off so much when I was younger that now it's flipped on its head to being funny because...

People to me when I was younger having gone, "You can't possibly know you want hormones! Don't you know anything?! You can't just make decisions! You don't know health, you can't diagnose yourself as being dysphoric and needing that!" quickly turned into my medical teams frequently saying, "oh I didn't know that," and even confiding in me that I was their first trans patient they ever saw, much less learned about. How the fuck are you expecting a medical professional to diagnose an issue they haven't even heard of. Trans people really are expected to have a PhD in Being Trans just for the chance to be listened to (without the pay that comes with that education!).

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #the only thing that gave me a true ego boost was knowing how little medical professionals are expected to know #one of my past therapists almost... proudly (?) proclaimed she had to look through the DSM-V for gender dysphoria #needless to say my confidence in her was... significantly altered in a negative way #honestly the lab rat treatment i've gotten for... Being Trans has made it so much harder now to go to doctors though #i know i've talked about this before but this STILL astounds me and makes me laugh

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