Hey folks.... Interesting conversation here. I'm upset to hear your therapist did not validate your experiences of dysphoria and disbelieved your identity... I am currently is grad school for mental health counseling and have found the information provided to students at my school re:trans people to be very simplistic and misleading. Our textbooks have had paragraph mentions at best regarding "men who feel like women" and "women who feel like men", concepts which I think are not really accurate for how many trans people and non-binary people experience their genders... In any case, thought therapists are usually well-intentioned, the reality is, education around trans issues is very much lacking in schools. I have tried my best to offer better resources and educate people in my classes, but more work needs to be done. I hope you are able to find people who, if they don't already have the information, are open to learning and being corrected. Peace! Pete