Am I Trans Enough?: How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self

Again, “Well, what the hell did you think was going to happen?” What they thought was going to happen is probably that this treatment might make them feel better.

required. It begins to look like the DSM is saying that distress and desire are two sides of the same coin. Or

If inner child work is about reconnecting with safety, then the work of reconnecting with your inner adolescent is about working out and integrating your identity.

In order to keep memories as a story of my self, it turns out I needed a sense of self.

How do you determine if you are a person who needs to be on hormones longer in order to experience the positive effects or if you are a person who should stop taking them?

By not presupposing what your gender is and what it should be okay with, you allow yourself to determine the truth of it.

We believe that anything negative that may occur after making these decisions is our fault.

When you make the decision to be the truest and most honest version of yourself, maybe everything else is just what happens alongside it. It is not something you meant to help or harm anyone with; it simply is. Try to hold this thought for as long as you can tolerate it: Perhaps whatever happens is exactly what had to happen.

whether we experience something as trauma or not has a lot to do with whether we are capable of coping with the event that is occurring. Some trauma experts have called trauma an experience that overwhelms our ability to cope.