Hey! I just watched your video while color grading some videos. I thought it had way more views and that you had way more followers. I love the how chill you sound despite the violence of the subject. Your video is such a safe place. I really hope that you will find your peace
I'm so sorry you had this experience. As another trans person unable to seek healthcare at the moment, I have a huge fear that when I do seek medical care that I'll face a lot of difficulty for waiting to start hormones for years after I've been socially out. I just want to say that yes, this is incredibly hard, but just seeing a genuine trans person, showing what really goes on when it's so easy for cis people to not understand, is so important. For both trans and cis people to see the human behind the label. Trans people are so often taught to just stay quiet, that existing is to be too loud, but you not letting it stay silent means a lot. I think your art is beautiful, and I want to thank you for not doing this alone. Just speaking out and being such a positive force in the eye of a storm gives me a lot of hope. I'm really glad this popped up in my recommended :)
It's really hard to accept that the "health professionals" that are in charge of this kind of trans matters would be so abusive, at this point it's not just ignorance... I'd get it from a regular person in the street, but someone who's job is to assess your gender identity issues ? I had heard of how hard it is to find safe health professionals, and yet I am still surprised and disgusted. The question about wether your dressing choice is a kink is so humiliating... On much smaller lighter scale, I have experienced similar issues with my autism and ADHD. The majority of therapists and psychiatrists don't know about autism, and there are a lot of cliches about ADHD. I got my ADHD diagnosed this summer at the glorious age of 30 y.o. All this time my attention problems didn't seem to really mean anything in the eyes of all the health professionals I met, including a psychiatrists who was supposed to be the leading expert in this field in my region, who completely missed what I said, refused to aknowledge my issues because I had good grades at school, and who was even abusive to me about my PTSD ("it's not the end of the world, move on"...) As for autism, even with a diagnosis most mental health facilities just don't get it. The outlook and words of the "health professionnals" towards autism will either be denying the disability (you're not really autistic because you're not intellectually challenged and therefore not disabled), or will be very patronizing - like we are some kids and we don't know what we are talking about. Thankfully there are also people who are working hard to change things, I finally found a good therapist this summer. Fun fact : autism is not part of the university course program to become a psychologist/therapist in France. Which is a shame, because the first people we usually seek for mental health problems are these people. The therapist I found this year had a seperate degree on the matter, and it completely changes the dynamic. I wouldnt't be surprised if it was the same for gender identity... Surely there are good health professionals out there who are putting the extra work to get educated, but I'll guess most of them never have to learn about it. Again, a shame since parents will first seek a therapist's advice if their child has this sort of problem (usually)...
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Hey! I just watched your video while color grading some videos. I thought it had way more views and that you had way more followers. I love the how chill you sound despite the violence of the subject. Your video is such a safe place. I really hope that you will find your peace
I'm so sorry you had this experience. As another trans person unable to seek healthcare at the moment, I have a huge fear that when I do seek medical care that I'll face a lot of difficulty for waiting to start hormones for years after I've been socially out. I just want to say that yes, this is incredibly hard, but just seeing a genuine trans person, showing what really goes on when it's so easy for cis people to not understand, is so important. For both trans and cis people to see the human behind the label. Trans people are so often taught to just stay quiet, that existing is to be too loud, but you not letting it stay silent means a lot. I think your art is beautiful, and I want to thank you for not doing this alone. Just speaking out and being such a positive force in the eye of a storm gives me a lot of hope. I'm really glad this popped up in my recommended :)
I hope you feel a little bit better after sharing what you went through here, again you're so brave for opening up about it !
It's really hard to accept that the "health professionals" that are in charge of this kind of trans matters would be so abusive, at this point it's not just ignorance... I'd get it from a regular person in the street, but someone who's job is to assess your gender identity issues ? I had heard of how hard it is to find safe health professionals, and yet I am still surprised and disgusted. The question about wether your dressing choice is a kink is so humiliating...
On much smaller lighter scale, I have experienced similar issues with my autism and ADHD. The majority of therapists and psychiatrists don't know about autism, and there are a lot of cliches about ADHD. I got my ADHD diagnosed this summer at the glorious age of 30 y.o. All this time my attention problems didn't seem to really mean anything in the eyes of all the health professionals I met, including a psychiatrists who was supposed to be the leading expert in this field in my region, who completely missed what I said, refused to aknowledge my issues because I had good grades at school, and who was even abusive to me about my PTSD ("it's not the end of the world, move on"...)
As for autism, even with a diagnosis most mental health facilities just don't get it. The outlook and words of the "health professionnals" towards autism will either be denying the disability (you're not really autistic because you're not intellectually challenged and therefore not disabled), or will be very patronizing - like we are some kids and we don't know what we are talking about.
Thankfully there are also people who are working hard to change things, I finally found a good therapist this summer.
Fun fact : autism is not part of the university course program to become a psychologist/therapist in France. Which is a shame, because the first people we usually seek for mental health problems are these people. The therapist I found this year had a seperate degree on the matter, and it completely changes the dynamic.
I wouldnt't be surprised if it was the same for gender identity... Surely there are good health professionals out there who are putting the extra work to get educated, but I'll guess most of them never have to learn about it. Again, a shame since parents will first seek a therapist's advice if their child has this sort of problem (usually)...