I can't remember who it was but someone on here a while back was organizing a sort of activism page for therapy abuse, collecting people's stories so that they could be put online and act as a counterweight to therapist agenda.
Maybe activism of some sort like that would help bring you some peace???

I guess I personally don't see it as very significantly different from.medical practice. There will be some surgeons who seriously screw up creating permanent harm. I don't think anyone would argue that ALL surgeons are bad but we do know they make some bad mistakes. Of course you can die without a surgeon but there are people on here who feel.they would have died without their T's also.

The difference and part of what seems to bother you is that is a surgeon screws up you can take the evidence to the hospital/lawyer etc and say "look they screwed up. They cut off my leg Instead of talking out my gallbladder" and there will usually eventually be some kind kd recompense amd the potential for the doctor to be suspended or disciplined either by the hospital or the medical board.

With T, how does one PROVE harm when the assumption is that those of us seeking T are messed up to begin with??? How do you find justice? You can bring a case to the state board but the difficulty in proving harm makes it hard even with egregious abuse like having sex with a client.

Activism could change that if enough people pushed for further oversight. It used to be that every doctor gas a little town office---now all of those offices are associated with hospital groups which helps manage risk by having each case reviewed by more people . its not impossible to see Ts moving towards being required to provide multi tiered protection of a client

I just wonder if pursuing something like that might help and I know someone on here was collecting stories at one time.