What do you wish you knew before seeing a gender therapist?

If you live in the states and depending on where you live and your age informed consent is pretty popular. What that means is they treat you like a human, not a transgender needing therapy and possibly gatekeeping which is very unethical to me, and instead they tell you the risks and ask for your permission to start you on it because its what your wanting. If you grant permission then they immediately proceed to start you on it. After all you don't eed gatekeeping for any other treatment, I didn't sign up with gatekeeping to get cold medicine and pretend I'm free of the cold for a year before being allowed to get the medicine.

Anyways I've heard its more rare out of the states so its just where you live. I'm confident in a few years though we'll see more informed consent and a decline in treating transgender as a condition that needs therapy and worse gatekeeping.

Good luck though.

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