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Title: Post Mortem: On Beyond Galloping Zebras
Post by: Butterfly on April 19, 2009, 09:32:05 PM
Post Mortem: On Beyond Galloping Zebras
Feministe
April 18, 2009


http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/04/18/post-mortem-on-beyond-galloping-zebras/ (http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/04/18/post-mortem-on-beyond-galloping-zebras/)


Thursday I met with the psychiatrist who oversaw my transition and a few months of my re-transition. It was interesting–very brief, and anticlimactic; at this point, I'm not really in transition in either direction. She also clearly saw it as a one-time deal. She asked some questions about how I was, and what it had been like to come back. Her main focus was on why I thought I started transitioning in the first place (more on that later): what created a need to do something like it, and what made trans masculine transition so attractive in particular. And I do understand why she would be most focused on prevention as opposed to cure.