I told my psychologist that I don’t believe men can be women if they say so and I need single sex spaces.

She knew I had experienced trauma related to male violence.

She used the entire session to argue about this with me.

I told her I do not believe 'identifying' and 'being' are the same thing.

She kept saying ‘trans women are women’.

I asked how, and she kept repeating that same thing.

I should have walked out.

Up until that exchange she had been great.

When she left, no psychologist at the practice would take me as a client.

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