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When mental health professionals question your gender identity

My therapist keeps asking if I'm 'sure' about being transgender and I'm starting to doubt myself even though I know who I am.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic relationships meant to provide support instead become spaces where self-knowledge is repeatedly challenged.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender identity — full spectrum?”

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