Telling The Doctor I've Been Taking HRT Under the Counter & Self Acceptance of my Feelings

[black_cat_1980]

I am very nervous about going to the doctors today. I expect I will even more nervous when I am actually there. I think I am increasing the severity of the situation in my mind. I believe that I could be in denial that I am taking the HRT and anti-androgens up until now, or maybe I just didn’t realise what I was doing. If I look at myself from an

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[eriktrips]

I don't know how things work where you are but here in san francisco the major public transgender clinic works on a harm-reduction, informed consent model that generally considers it better for you to be under a doctor's care if you are going to take the hormones on your own anyway. they don't do an extremely rigorous screening, but you do have to talk to a mental health professional for an hour or two just so your general stability and non-psychotic-ness can be established