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"In a young person so intensely focused on bodily issues, <NAME> communicates little about how he hopes and imagines a life interacting with others as male, especially as he currently lives a life isolated from his peers."
"His wish to transition and to fully realise his male identity has now become the central and dominating focus of his life. He brings a certain degree of all-or-nothing inflexibility and rigidity of thinking to his experience and expression of his cross gender identity."
"He meets the criteria for a diagnosis of GID. He has a clear wish for HRT & surgery. He is not managing to tolerate his physical distress as he waits for treatments to become available but experiences intense upset at his female body and has little else to focus on in his life."
What's the criteria? Well I was a tomboy who referred to my breasts as "disgusting growths" and hated being a girl. Those were my words & thoughts. I also had a clear fixation on transition as the answer to my struggles (which I now think should have been looked at more closely).
It's only now, as an adult, that I can see what was behind the words and feelings that I held back then. Maybe if someone had pushed me I could have seen it sooner.
Am I to blame that they didn't push? That they didn't bother to see if there was something more to my story? That they just assumed a kid has the introspection skills of an adult with actual life experience? I was a 14 year old, they were supposed to be the professionals. (12/12)
I think this tweet and the one before say that your desires were not thought through it grounded in any lived experience
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