Gaming Therapists, Gaming Ourselves

[Shana A]

Gaming Therapists, Gaming Ourselves
Posted December 11, 2008

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/gaming-therapists-gaming-ourselves/

Probably the most persistent of questions that one finds on the Netz where TG people gather revolve around issues of therapy. Those seem to cause the most trepidation, anger, resentment, off-hand advice I ever read at any forum. The vast majority of transsexed women and men have followed the therapy route and the WPATH Standards of Care model in traversing the area between one sex and the other. (Apologies to other people in the TG-spectrum who identify themselves as something other than one of two sexes. I'm more comfortable with that approach. Although I understand and embrace that others don't hold with the binary, I find it convenient to use "sex" as a binary while writing. It sorta pares down things and I write long enough sentences anyway.) 

Newly discovering transitioners come full of questions and can be given some pretty glaringly poor advice, brilliant advice, and advice based on pre-conceptions and self-experiences that they know nothing at all about. Just because we have experienced working with a therapist doesn't make us conversant with "the -state-of-the-art" nor with evaluating how "good" or "bad" a particular clincian might be. No more than does having gone through six forms or grades of schooling makes one conversant with the running of an educational system.

[NicholeW.]

Yep, it's a bump, but not a shameless one.

I just approved a comment that prolly deserves a space of it's own here for people to read it.

What Taliah said was just that ... heart-felt and kinda gives us a better pic of how things were not so long ago between transsexers and therapists.

But even with that over her, I think she cuts to the heart of something very important in her comments toward the end of her piece. Go read it. She alone is worth the price of admission.

Nichole