Quote from: Nygeel on December 04, 2011, 01:59:14 PM
Show him the SoC version 7. Does he know what you've been doing and for how long?
Miniar is also Icelandic and has been guiding me a bit with information and he showed me SoC version 7 and I did tell my therapist about it and asked him if he had read it, which he said he had but then said there was no changes in the real life experience requirements, It's documented, in HIS documents that I went to see him 6 years ago about transitioning but had gone into denial which we talked briefly about, my marriage fell apart, and I fell apart and I finally went back to square 1 with him, having spent all those years constantly thinking about this and regretting not doing it, I just wasn't strong enough then, but I am now.
Quote from: Eve87 on December 04, 2011, 02:04:44 PM
The standards of care are supposed to be guidance, not rules. And they do not even say you require a year of RLE before HRT anywhere.
I actually had 5-6 months of HRT before going full-time and the people who treat me do put a lot of stock in the SoC. They are flexible standards and supposed to be made to fit the individual in question.
It's indeed inhumane. you could try and point him to the workings of other gender teams (which never works) or find a more realistic therapist.
I'm not even sure we have another therapist that deals with transgender people, I'd have to look into it, and yes RLE should be flexible and made to fit each individual, if I had only recently starting thinking about these things, I would probably welcome a good time of RLE before making this huge dramatic life altering decision, but I have already been consumed with these longing for a really long time now, and 12 months does not fit me at all, 6 months is the most I could stand, but 3 months or no months at all is what I need,
I also really do not like that people that self medicate get around this "rule" as he put it, because they would rather people medicate under doctor supervision so trying to do this the correct way, the responsible way I get punished with inhumane RLE time.
I have read through SoC 7 a bit, but I don't think I understand it to well, my english isn't fantastic, so if anyone could simplify the language in the HRT portion of it, I would be really grateful.
