(25-Mar-2026, 10:10 PM)Guest Wrote:(04-Dec-2023, 04:01 AM)theComet Wrote: I am interested in this issue - and looking forward to being a member of this forum! I myself am a licensed counselor and finding myself with no resources whatsoever in relation to my super smart, sensitive and capable daughter who is 17 and now planning to transition with hormones when she is 18. She has voiced this off and on for years and I kept thinking that with her excellent grades, small social network and job in a field she loves, that things were going to be okay. To listen to her adamant plans for hormones and absolute refusal to consider adult life in the body of a woman, recently seemed to break me. I feel as if I'm grieving and have nowhere to turn, because I of all people know how my field views this issue at this time. I am seriously considering creating a private practice so that I can help parents in my situation and they can speak freely. And also working with teens but the threat of losing a license or even legal action is absolutely real and until recently (practicing within a MH agency) I could not risk the backlash. Maybe now I can. I hope to be approved soon to see if there are other threads in the forum in which I can get more information about treatment for my family and my child. I am ready to send my child to an amish community - if it was a disorder viewed like anorexia, I would say 'residential treatment'- but in this case, I feel that 'treatment' would simply be to affirm her ideas and send her on to a pharmacy with her golden ticket, a Rx for "T'.
I am in the same situation with my daughter and feel I need psychological support. I feel like I could end up worse off. Berated for my "bigotry" - so I really support you in your aims of helping other parents, albeit recognising the current cultural difficulties. Thank you.
There are so many more organizations to help today than there were only a couple years ago. Start with Genspect, Thoughtful Therapists, https://www.sometherapist.com/ . . . that's just a few off the top of my head. But if you start looking online, you will find them. LGB Courage Coalition, Our Duty, https://www.transgendertrend.com/ . . . And if you want to save your daughter, unlike me, you've got to be willing to disrupt your entire life . . . some parents here have watched their children desist and some parents here have taken a desperate leap, moved heaven and earth to completely change the social and physical environment of their minor children, and some have been forced into retraining their brains for radical acceptance of the loss of the bright futures they imagined for their beloved ones. There is so much I should have done different, but at the time I just couldn't see the true dimensions of this multi-causal tsunami of evils and how impossible it would be for my special little family to weather it with our mental health intact. Now I feel I'm just biding time until it's all over. But whether you get psychological support formally or informally, prepare yourself for the feeling of regret for not having sacrificed enough. This forum is very quiet these days. A few people are still here, but there are so many more organizations operating now, this forum is more like an archive of the personal histories comprising this tragedy of a social phenomenon.
