Religion is a Mental Illness

"I saw a therapist because I was going to get top surgery - thank God I didn't - and I went and saw a therapist once. And I remember this was like about 6 to 8 months down the line, down the road from my transition. I was starting to really actually pass as a guy. And I went to see another therapist about getting top surgery, and it only took one. One therapy appointment for me to explain to them that I was trans, or identified as trans, and I wanted to get top surgery. They didn't ask me any questions. They didn't like, poke or prod or try to be like, how long have you been transitioning? Are you sure this is the right thing for you? Nothing. Nothing. They sent me a letter or something to my insurance company so I could get approved under insurance to go get the surgery. I had even been talking to the doctor's office that does these. Everything was approved. Nobody questioned me. Nobody did anything. I was basically diagnosing myself consistently throughout my entire transition. I was responsible for my own medical diagnosis. Which is really crazy, and is something that's unfortunately, very, very common."

"I've had relapses on T [testosterone] and short periods of time where I've decided to reidentify as a transman. Well, as a 'man,' as I put it. I go to the doctor cause, you know, I think I'm that I'm gonna get on testosterone. And they'll be, they'll be fully affirming of that, not questioning the fact that I've gone back and forth like, many times like, not asking, you know what, why are you changing your mind so much? They just completely affirm it. The only issue I run into is my primary care physician, she refers me to someone else, but she's still overly affirming. She's not questioning why I'm wanting to go on testosterone, and then why I'm going off it, and then why I'm going back on it. You think that would be something they would be concerned about."

"I personally believe that exploratory style therapy would have helped me to dig down into the roots of why I was so uncomfortable as a girl and later as a young woman. I also believe that I was failed because I wasn't screened for developmental disabilities. Knowing that I was on the autism spectrum might have helped me to reframe my experience growing up as a weird girl."

"What happens, you end up with cases like me where someone who needed therapy got this treatment that they didn't need in the first place. Treatment that is irreversible. All of those doctors who have their agenda to get as many people on those pills as possible, they don't ever question your motives. They just affirm your belief that you're supposed to be the opposite sex. That's how you get more and more people detransitioning."