I saw my psychiatrist today, and I talked to him about beginning transition, say, now. He got pretty uncomfortable, saying he wasn't used to such issues (why they sent me to HIM then is a mystery, but bureaucrats don't always know what they're doing)... So he's going to refer me to another psychiatrist, who, without being specialized in TG issues, apparently "is the most knowledgeable in that domain" in the hospital.
Ironically, that's the same psychiatrist who runs the day group therapy (see my introductory post) where I chickened out about exposing the issue to complete strangers and only briefly mentioned it in an interview. So basically, I've lost some time because of this... But even if I knew, I would probably not have acted differently, as I'm just not going to say that to strangers. I think I can achieve a pretty good level of stealth and I do not want to kill it.
He told me he would ask the other psychiatrist to see me "as soon as possible". Might be next week, might be in a month. I'm not quite on HRT yet, but I feel it getting closer.
To make this post more useful, I can relay to you a piece of advice he gave me. It can be phrased like this :
"Keep on moving forward, and do not let yourself get stopped by gender dysphoria or de-organize yourself. The more you show you are able to function despite the issue, the faster dr XX will approve of your stransition, and the faster it will begin."
There you go. I just thought it could not hurt for me to tell you about my progress.
It would have made a great blog post, but mysteriously no one is telling me why it is so long.
