Yes, I do very much. In my case it's very hard for me to cry in front of a man. I ended up choosing a male therapist for kind of the same reasons, I saw a female T and just cried for all of every session and left feeling like an out of control depressed emotional vomiting wound. It took me a long time to be able to cry in front of my male therapist, and I like that our sessions aren't all me in tears lamenting my life! I've still never broken down to the extent I did with the female T on day one, but I have gotten more comfortable over time.

Growing up I was taught that women were weak, emotional, stupid, irrational, childlike, liabilities. I was raised to be ashamed of any weakness I showed and I never acted much in feminine ways despite being very much a girl as my therapist points out. I think this plays into how I am today.