Quote:Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times, writing that I had wanted to live “authentically as the woman that I have always been,” and had “effectively traded my white male privilege to become one of America’s most hated minorities.”

Three years ago, I decided that I was neither male nor female, but nonbinary—and made headlines after an Oregon judge agreed to let me identify as a third sex, not male or female.

Now, I want to live again as the man that I am.

I’m one of the lucky ones. Despite participating in medical transgenderism for six years, my body is still intact. Most people who desist from transgender identities after gender changes can’t say the same.

But that’s not to say I got off scot-free. My psyche is eternally scarred, and I’ve got a host of health issues from the grand medical experiment.

Here’s how things began.

After convincing myself that I was a woman during a severe mental health crisis, I visited a licensed nurse practitioner in early 2013 and asked for a hormone prescription. “If you don’t give me the drugs, I’ll buy them off the internet,” I threatened.

Although she’d never met me before, the nurse phoned in a prescription for 2 mg of oral estrogen and 200 mg of Spironolactone that very same day.

The nurse practitioner ignored that I have chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, having previously served in the military for almost 18 years. All of my doctors agree on that. Others believe that I have bipolar disorder and possibly borderline personality disorder.

I should have been stopped, but out-of-control, transgender activism had made the nurse practitioner too scared to say no.

I’d learned how to become a female from online medical documents at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital website.

After I began consuming the cross-sex hormones, I started therapy at a gender clinic in Pittsburgh so that I could get people to sign off on the transgender surgeries I planned to have.

All I needed to do was switch over my hormone operating fuel and get my ***** turned into a ******. Then I’d be the same as any other woman. That’s the fantasy the transgender community sold me. It’s the lie I bought into and believed.

Only one therapist tried to stop me from crawling into this smoking rabbit hole. When she did, I not only fired her, I filed a formal complaint against her. “She’s a gatekeeper,” the trans community said.

Professional stigmatisms against “conversion therapy” had made it impossible for the therapist to question my motives for wanting to change my sex.

The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (Fifth Edition) says one of the traits of gender dysphoria is believing that you possess the stereotypical feelings of the opposite sex. I felt that about myself, but yet no therapist discussed it with me.

Two weeks hadn’t passed before I found a replacement therapist. The new one quickly affirmed my identity as a woman. I was back on the road to getting vaginoplasty.

There’s abundant online literature informing transgender people that their sex change isn’t real. But when a licensed medical doctor writes you a letter essentially stating that you were born in the wrong body and a government agency or court of law validates that delusion, you become damaged and confused. I certainly did.

(03-12-2019 01:53 PM)DFWMINER Wrote:  Yup. As I said in another thread these folks need professional help and not reassurance their desire to change is the correct path. It is mental and a shame that they can file complaints against those trying to truly help.

(03-12-2019 01:24 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  This story shows the real problem in healthcare.

The guy threatened to self-medicate if the NP didn't give him the drugs he sought... and of course he likely would have fled a complaint, and the ACA requires high patient satisfaction... else they don't get paid what they're worth... plus things like yelp reviews etc... I see it literally every day...

He had a therapist give him good advice so he fired them and filed a complaint.

(03-12-2019 03:43 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(03-12-2019 01:24 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  This story shows the real problem in healthcare.

The guy threatened to self-medicate if the NP didn't give him the drugs he sought... and of course he likely would have fled a complaint, and the ACA requires high patient satisfaction... else they don't get paid what they're worth... plus things like yelp reviews etc... I see it literally every day...

He had a therapist give him good advice so he fired them and filed a complaint.

YES!!!

And if you refuse to do what patient says, your patient satisfaction score will rank, which will hurt your reimbursment from the feds

(03-12-2019 04:16 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  Objectively, transgenderism is a delusion. Unlike other delusions however its one that society is being forced to submit to rather than addressing the mental health issues of the person suffering the delusion. Glad this person is addressing their delusion instead of trying to reinforce it.