{"id":555,"date":"2014-09-23T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2023-03-14T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:36:52","slug":"so-theres-that-day-2-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/so-theres-that-day-2-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"So There&#8217;s That, Day 2: Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>So There&#8217;s That: Adventures in Transgendering chronicled my transition in 2014. One hopes the gentle readers will forgive any awkward or anachronistic language within.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<div class=\"p1\">The fear has crept in.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">It\u2019s so easy to make courageous pronouncements from the safety of one\u2019s home. It\u2019s another to take a sterile NYC elevator up ten stories to meet a complete stranger and acknowledge things I\u2019ve only ever admitted to myself.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">So I nervously sit in the waiting area (in boy mode), waiting for my turn, trying not to check the time on my phone every 30 seconds. Finally I am beckoned into the therapist\u2019s office. Mercifully, she is kind, calm and comforting. And I babble. I barely let her get in a word edgewise. Because it is such a relief to unburden myself for the first time. To admit that I am transgendered (\u201cI accept!\u201d).<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">I am emotional. I am happy. I am unburdened. Probably for the first time in my life.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">The time flies by and the session nears its end.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">My favorite line? \u201cOh, you\u2019re definitely transgendered.\u201d<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">But she also gently and kindly scolds me for self-medicating my hormone therapy (more on that later), and recommends I get my blood work checked (liver damage being the biggest danger). I grudgingly agree, but ask for recommendations in NYC instead of home back in Maryland. New York just feels\u2026 friendlier. And don\u2019t think I could come clean with my current doctor. At least not yet.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p1\">We agree to talk again in a week and I return to the elevator that suddenly doesn\u2019t seem so sterile anymore.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So There&#8217;s That: Adventures in Transgendering chronicled my transition in 2014. One hopes the gentle readers will forgive any awkward or anachronistic language within. &#8212; The fear has crept in. \u00a0 It\u2019s so easy to make courageous pronouncements from the safety of one\u2019s home. It\u2019s another to take a sterile NYC elevator up ten stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-so-theres-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}