GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

Ok,you all seem pretty adamant so i guess i will accept what you are saying. Life is certainly not all worry,worry,worry though, i do find some of it still scary. I have actually given up going to Charing Cross now after being seen by an endocrinologist fo a while. It was him who told me that i do not see what other people see. That i was actually good looking and quite unremarkable. I did not like that last bit but he explained that it was a compliment! He has arranged CBT for me local to my home so i will give that a go. Thanks for your opinions on my post, i do have other questions so will post again at some time.

So true.
CHX psychs, a bunch of buffoons who make this stuff up entirely on a basis of serving their own megalomaniac needs. You are not in the company of friends when you talk with such people.

It can only cause problems to give them the least credibility instead of just getting on with life. They have the power to do what they do, and some people have no choice but to work with that. But that doesn't mean that they or their opinions are worth beans. They will definitely be recorded in history on the wrong side of the ledger.

My treating psychiatrist made it very clear to me that the surgery was not some panacea that would fix all my problems. I was clear that what was in my head from my gender to my issues wasn't going to change with surgery.

I think I used to know what those categories meant back in the 90s. I forgot about what they meant back then too.

Just be yourself. If you even KNOW you "fit in", you still have a long way to go - because you're thinking about it. ;-)

Roxanne you are wise as when we first talked in 2005. The question I asked myself when I started transition was- How am I most comfortable as? Thransition is the in between journey till you accept yourself. Hormones, surgery, clothes do not make you who you are, its your mind. Best of luck Cheryl_Lynne aka Teryll