Your post was fine Gracie, like you noted, I was just responding to the idea that a qualified psych would not tell you what they thought of your condition. You are totally right that they would not do so at the start of therapy with you and that it is through this therapy that you come to terms with yourself about what you are and are not.
I tend to lean a little or more on topics of therapy and transition and most often am not actually trying to dismantle a particular post but particular ideas which many have come to believe as gospel which are many times wrong.
Often enough those just starting on thier own journeys spend time on many boards and circles which emphasise that if any therapyst that doesn't get right to the trans issue and qualifies you and writes you scripts for hormones then one should leave and find a new psych, but like you seem to agree, it is a time consuming process to make such a justification before granting hormones which could litterally ruin the life of a person that has simply misread other causes for persuing feminine life and body.
I feel it is important to understand that many of the so called specialists do make oppinions about thier patients and don't write scripts unless it "feels right" to them. It would be irresponsible to do otherwise. I just like to keep issues straight, it's not that i'm disagreeing with all areas of a post, just ideas I see displayed at times that reinforce expectations of those who are new to all this and don't always get both sides of a story.
There was nothing wrong with anything you said and I'm truely sorry if I misunderstood how you ment that phraise. I can be prone to that as I am one of those that are basically insomnic and I'm not always clear minded enough to sort things out in what I read as clearly as I should in the context of how and why it is written, I sometimes only see the direct verbal connection. It's one of the things I work on, but as an entirety I liked your post and had nothing against it other then a statement I took as what a qualified specialist would or would not do. Again, I oppologise if I read that statement wrong and I'll try to be more careful about such things.
Never worry about what you have to say here as long as it adhears to the rules. Issues are often disagreed with and discussed, but we do so as ladies and gentlemen and even in disagreement, things are focused and learned from. Myself, I'm always ready for a discussion on any issue regardless of my stand on it as I constantly learn things I may not have thought of or encountered.
Keep posting, you have a reasonable and clear projection in your writing and I would imagine have a lot to say, so always say it as you see it.
It's not so much that you need to clarify anything you said as it is to me to better understand what I thought you said. Again sorry for misreading it, I should not have posted an objection.
Terri
