Segment of an email sent from Ky/CrashChaosCats to Devorah Zahav, dated August 23 2013, discussing wanting to work with graham to “decrease the amount of people transitioning.”
Text reads:
From: [CENSORED] Last-name [CENSORED]
Date: 8/23/13, 14:30
To: [CENSORED] “blue327 [CENSORED]
hey [CENSORED]
so this person wrote a comment on my blog some time last week saying she was a therapist and she wanted to talk to me about my detransition. i checked out her blog:
http://noregretsgendertransition.wordpress.com/
and read her post about my “socialized” trans post and some of her other writing and decided to contact her. i don’t agree with everything she says and i don’t trust therapists in general or think a person needs to see a therapist to work through their detransition but i know other people do go to therapists and i figure i might be able to provide information that could make such therapy potentially helpful or at least less harmful. (can you tell how cynical i am about shrinks?)
so, i emailed this person last week and she just replied to me yesterday. turns out she works for the san francisco department of public health as a gender services coordinator and she’s trying to redesign how her program does informed consent. she’s freaked out by how many females are transitioning and wants to decrease that number and also provide better support for people who detransition. she said that there’s a social problem being treated as a medical problem and that’s she’s been worried about the number of females transitioning for years now. i know she probably can’t say that to a lot of people she works with.
i did some online research to make sure she’s who she says she is and it looks like she’s legit.
i am definitely willing to work with someone who wants to decrease the amount of people transitioning. i remain skeptical about therapists and doctors in general but i think i have enough points in common to work with this woman and she sounds like she’s in a position of influence where she could effect how people have access to hormones and how “gender dysphoria” is viewed and treated in general. a shift in gender therapy could make at least a small difference, though this woman points out that even changing informed consent at her program may have a limited impact since you can get hormones on demand elsewhere in san fran. so i decided to talk to this woman and see what comes out of it.