Transition was medical trauma for me, and it was medical trauma for a lot of people that I have become friends with.
Listening to other people’s positive experiences with transition feels similar to listening to someone who is currently dating someone who once abused you.
You want to believe that it could be different for them. You want to be happy that the people you care about seem to be enjoying themselves.
But you also feel like you have a duty to warn them. And you can’t, really, because the abuse you endured was between you and that person, and everyone else is brushing you off because, well, they seem like such a nice person, no one else is complaining, and look how happy they are!
. . .
If the scale of this medical scandal ever comes to light the way I think it will, I will never forget who gave me the space to try and understand where I was coming from and who called me a transphobic bitch.
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