So I recognize that there are a lot of
people in the world that don't
understand transgender individuals. So
when a patient comes to us there are
three different sort of axes that we're
trying to sort of focus on: how they
want to appear to the world, we have to
know how they feel about themselves on
the inside, and how they feel about
themselves from a sexual standpoint. So
these three different axes are are in
all of us. They actually feel like that
there's some anxiety as
a result of being in the gender that
they're in, that's the general reason why
this is going on. Whether that treatment
be biofeedback, whether that treatment be
anti-anxiety medications, sometimes the
treatment is surgical management to help
them overcome the anxiety of the gender
that they are within. So 1 to 3% of the
population are transgender individuals,
should we ignore that 3% because
it's a small minority of patients? It is
not my job to make the decisions for the
patient, it's my job to enable the
patient to be able to achieve those
decisions. Many of them have gone through
their lives feeling different, many of
them have gone through their lives
feeling unique and not having the world
understand them, and it's not for me, and
I believe it's not really for all of us,
to judge who we are inside of ourselves,
to each their own is sort of the
approach that we take. We're opening up a
door to a new life, we're opening up a
door to allow them to be who they really
are.
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