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I skimmed a lot of the trans communities and figured this might be an okay place to have... a discussion... not really advice about something that's been on my mind for a few years but has come back to the front of it.
And let me just say my therapist is not trans, but she is queer and works heavily with the GLBTQQA community every single week outside of her practice.
So if this is rude, delete it, it's fine, I'm just wondering about people's thoughts on why straight people and folks not really having much to do with the queer community specialize in trans "issues" so often... In my neck of the woods, it's like "the thing to say" (my town is very lesbian centered NOT trans centered) ... but we have a decent trans population.
I guess lately I've found myself mysteriously angry over the situation... be it because lately trans people are being profiled on TV a lot more... or that I'm medically transitioning now and feel like that fascinates people to the point of being annoying with asking me 1,000 different questions on what it's doing to my body... and I feel like they can never understand but try to in the wrong ways.
Okay this is becoming a rant... but... my family just put me in the position of choosing group counseling or basically not speaking to each other and I can't for the life of me trust any other therapist but my own to do right by me... people who counsel trans people just seem to be so misinformed sometimes... or let me rephrase... the possibility of them being very misinformed is quite prevalent. There was a therapist in my town who got a really good rep for being "the trans counselor" but secretly was "the misinformed counselor" when my friends would come and complain to me about her after a session.
Do you think it's some new, interesting field that people want to distinguish themselves in?
Thoughts?
Experiences?
Are you thoroughly confused?
Eh, delete me if you want!
AJ
PS, I'm NOT looking for a fight or bitter words... I'm really just looking to see what other folks are thinking, that's all.
I skimmed a lot of the trans communities and figured this might be an okay place to have... a discussion... not really advice about something that's been on my mind for a few years but has come back to the front of it.
And let me just say my therapist is not trans, but she is queer and works heavily with the GLBTQQA community every single week outside of her practice.
So if this is rude, delete it, it's fine, I'm just wondering about people's thoughts on why straight people and folks not really having much to do with the queer community specialize in trans "issues" so often... In my neck of the woods, it's like "the thing to say" (my town is very lesbian centered NOT trans centered) ... but we have a decent trans population.
I guess lately I've found myself mysteriously angry over the situation... be it because lately trans people are being profiled on TV a lot more... or that I'm medically transitioning now and feel like that fascinates people to the point of being annoying with asking me 1,000 different questions on what it's doing to my body... and I feel like they can never understand but try to in the wrong ways.
Okay this is becoming a rant... but... my family just put me in the position of choosing group counseling or basically not speaking to each other and I can't for the life of me trust any other therapist but my own to do right by me... people who counsel trans people just seem to be so misinformed sometimes... or let me rephrase... the possibility of them being very misinformed is quite prevalent. There was a therapist in my town who got a really good rep for being "the trans counselor" but secretly was "the misinformed counselor" when my friends would come and complain to me about her after a session.
Do you think it's some new, interesting field that people want to distinguish themselves in?
Thoughts?
Experiences?
Are you thoroughly confused?
Eh, delete me if you want!
AJ
PS, I'm NOT looking for a fight or bitter words... I'm really just looking to see what other folks are thinking, that's all.