Just curious, if it is beneficial to attend transgender supprt groups?  Their is one that meets a couple times per month in the city I live in and I've been relunctant to attend. 

Quote from: jules968 on July 12, 2017, 11:31:15 PM
Just curious, if it is beneficial to attend transgender supprt groups?  Their is one that meets a couple times per month in the city I live in and I've been relunctant to attend.

I will try out two support groups. One that meets once a month and one that meets every week. I will try both and see what suits me. I feel an urge to see other people like me.

I have found transgender support groups to be invaluable resources.  I am active in two.

One is a group run by my HMO, and functions as both a group therapy session and a way to discover options within the HMO for treatment, access to needed services, and all the undocumented details on How Things Work.

The other is a social support group, hosting meetups, dinners, BBQ events and parties for trans folks and their spouses, if any.  This is a great way for us to to meet other trans folks, take those first steps into the world as ourselves, and discover trans-friendly services and businesses in their community.  This group is loosely connected with a local LGBTQ center.

One of the most invaluable things I got out of support groups during transition -- especially in the very early days of it -- was that there was a place I could go and get proper gendering.  It really helped me to clarify the source of my dysphoria as well as the cure.  Like, how do you know if you really want that gendering if you can't elicit it out in the big bad world? 

And, like Michelle says, there's so much local information you can get at support group, recommendations for local therapists, endocs, zappers, and so on.