It was an interesting day… I went to therapy and the things I told my therapist left him clueless. (I’ve been in therapy for 7 months weekly) I’m also a psychology student and have done tons of reading and personal shit to try and learn healthy ways to cope with my dysphoria which with HRT is getting better in some areas and worse in others. After a while of trying different attempts of coping we both came to the realization that there is NO solution for the current moment. For the foreseeable future at that. It scared me too. He honestly got up and left the room for a few minutes… this reality scares me. However, I know it’s a journey. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Our community here on Reddit is the majority of what all of us have. That’s it. Outside of this community what do we have for support if we don’t have friends in real life who understand our struggles? We have the average joe who might “support “ us… we have haters. These haters and loneliness along with dysphoria contribute to the feelings of hopelessness. You or I can do everything like HRT, wardrobe, makeup, voice training, etc. but when you’re only 8 months in you realize how long you’ve been fighting and how little progress has been made. Im happier than I was 8 months ago don’t get me wrong. But where is the real community for us? I have tried group meetings but (please don’t hate me for this) it’s all sad news with no support or attempt of solutions. It’s the same thing each week. I’m trying to start helping other trans individuals in my community with things they want to work on to try and being positive change to their life and make things easier on them. But it’s not gaining any traction. I feel we all want some sense of normalcy or at least to be treated normal. Not worry about this shit of not being loved, liked or accepted. But does that come to us on a daily? For me sometimes. For others all the time or never. If we got together we could create that sense if only for a brief period. We can’t change society over night. We can help eachother though. We need to remember the elders who got us here but we need to be here for eachother more than ever. Here and in real life. It would be a dream of mine if you read this if you could help another person you know struggling out. We need more of it. This goes for the whole community.