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@RozKaveney @ceemage Having been forcibly made aware of the possibility of/threatened, on my 3rd birthday, in 1950, with the rest of my life in an asylum, with daily ECT, "because that's what happens to people like you", I count from then, really. But comparisons are invidious & to be avoided.
@ceemage 1/ As my pinned tweet says, my mother was a nurse who had gone seeking an answer to my asking her some months before to find out if doctors had a way to make me grow up as a woman, & instead learned the official NHS "treatment path". So I believed her.
@ceemage 2/ I decided that such a fate was worse than death & within days planned what to do if I learned I was to be taken to the asylum. A simple & practical plan for a child that age living on the corner of a busy bus route. NHS psychiatrists have much for which to apologise.
1/ Transgender has never been considered a disorder; it has never been listed, & was coined to escape medical listing. #Transsexualism (the diagnosis for medical treatments to change body characteristics 🖼️, which most TG people don't want) & Gender Identity Disorder were… 
2/… listed, wrongly as mental disorders. The later is rewritten as Gender Dysphoria, a diagnosis for counselling (which most TG people don't need). The proposal is to move them, in WHO #ICD, to a sexual health section, but some activists also want #transsexualism erased…
3/… & prepubertal #trans children denied any diagnosis. We suspect they were people who never needed the protect & reassurance of a diagnosis as a child, perhaps don't believe such children exist, & don't themselves want medical treatment to change their bodies.
