True Life - I'm Questioning My Gender Again

[Tristan]

Yeah that's a good question . Idk for some of us it's so clear who we are. But for others it's not so easy I guess ? It's amazing how little I know about this kind if stuff and things in the trans community in general

[Shantel]

It's my understanding, it use to be required before psychiatrists could grant letters for SRS that any TS had to have a heterosexual orientation after transition (i.e., you had to be homosexual prior to transition).

I don't know about that, no-one ever brought that up to me. Although I may have missed a few steps along the way. The endocrinologist and my counselor both signed letters for me to get an orchiectomy, later I contacted Marci Bowers, we had a consultation and she reviewed copies of my two letters and did a physical exam and agreed on the basis of what was done so far to perform SRS on me, though I opted out later. Initially when I met the counselor and the endocrinologist I was already on HRT, they had to do catch-up with me. So the issue of homosexuality was never broached.

[Shantel]

Yeah that's a good question . Idk for some of us it's so clear who we are. But for others it's not so easy I guess ? It's amazing how little I know about this kind if stuff and things in the trans community in general

There's always a new wrinkle that I haven't considered before, so you're certainly not alone Tristan!