Howdy beautiful people,
I had my first therapy session on Saturday morning (at the obnoxiously early hour of 10 am, that's just not right for a Saturday). It was great, expensive, but great!! The doctors early diagnostic impression is that I do have GID, which is good because it means I will be able to start transitioning medically etc. The rule here is that after three 1 hour sessions he makes a diagnosis, then you must get a 2
nd opinion from another qualified psychologist and blood tests. If you get the OK from all that you can begin hormones.
The hormones can be gotten publicly or privately from endocrinologists clinics, public has long waiting lists but private is too pricey
. And because I can schedule therapy sessions once a week that means by next weekend hopefully I can have a diagnosis letter to work with.
Now that I have finally set the ball rolling on this whole process I feel really impatient to get on with it
I'm just over the moon.
The only downside I can see really is the price. This is going to eat into the money I was saving up, but i suppose in the back of my mind I was always saving it to cover some transition cost or another.
As for the session itself there wasn't really too much detail discussed, which I kind of expected. He obviously needed to establish basic things about me and I mostly needed to find out the required path (therapy, 2nd opinion, hormones) that I had to take to get to where I want to be and the cost. He was really helpful and welcoming which I expected, but it was still great to see.
And on top of all that I am thinking about coming out to my parents and college classmates soon as well. I finally feel as though I am moving in the right direction
Claire xoxo
