new therapist want me to come out from stealth

[Virginia]

And when the only tool you have is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail, DawnOday.

The BIGGEST mistake I ever made in my life was seeing a gender therapist instead of a general therapist. Despite my insistence that my need to express myself as a woman had nothing to do with gender she rammed the notion that I was a late onset transsexual in denial down my throat for an entire year. By the grace of God, I resisted her and sought out the help of the medical college psychologist recommended by the OBGYN who prescribed my HRT. When the time/memory loss, night terrors and flashbacks began I was re-diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and referred for trauma recovery therapy.

I'm not certain how Marcus Bachmann or the emotional confessions that transitioners have been subject to conversion therapy apply, but I can relate to you first hand how close I came to losing my marriage and destroying the life I spent 40+ years building and rattle off the names of everyone I have encountered who has been misdiagnosed as transsexual by gender therapists.

[pamelatransuk]

I was taking my time on responding and waiting for my second visit to be done.  ill clarify a few things i was boy a boy i came out at 22 went full time as a woman almost immediately i meet my wife post transition.  i was out for the first few years but decided to go into stealth and cut off a bunch of relationships in order to achieve this. i am 32 and have been myself since i was 22. 

my second visit he apologized about being so forward the first visit and i will give a little more background i did MMA i was a bodybuilder and i did all these thing to protect myself from a world that scared me, i became an alpha male.  He told me that i never buried that old me, i still live in a world that scares me but i live a low risk lifestyle. work home date night the usual, there is part of me that misses advocating and with the war on the lgbtq it seems like latley i should be out and proud because i feel i am a success story in a world were there are so many bad stories. 

Thank you for clarifying your history and present status.

I note that you may wish to advocate for our cause due to the war being fought against us and because you are a success story. This is most admirable and I respect you for that.

However I believe the decision to remain stealth or to be open and then to campaign accordingly must be your decision after careful consideration and due consultation of course.

Pamela