Today I had an appointment with a local clinic. Pike Market Medical Clinic is a local clinic that can treat people on a sliding scale, and treats folks of all walks of life. I worked with Rachel Beda, who is new there but is very accepting of trans stuff. She was incredibly nice. But they don't do mental health counseling for gender issues there. She told me to go check out Seattle Counseling Services, which I'd submitted an application to a bit ago. I'll be going back to PMMC in few weeks to get the ol' undercarriage checked out, since it's been about 9000 years since my last general health appointment. Plus it will be good to build a repoire with a trans friendly doctor, for later.
I called SCS, and inquired about my application. They found it, reviewed it, and it turned out they had an opening at 4pm. I had an intake appointment, which was full of questions. I set my goals for the therapy as... being comfortable with transitioning in front of people. And to make sure that I was fully aware of all my options, and fully comfortable with all the side effects and medical knowledge before making the long term changes.
To be perfectly frank, I prefer being fully, fully informed to jumping in with both feet in this instance. It's important to me to understand the effects of the changes, and what will be happening to my body and mind with every step along the way.
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