Is your T genuine?

I think my T is pretty genuine. I've worked with her long enough, and in varied enough situations that I tend to believe what she says. It doesn't necessarily stop me from questioning her, or keep me from looking for reassurances from her, but I take what she presents at face value. We are able to disagree about things while talking them over in a mature, adult manner. If there are things she believes I am wrong about, she confronts me, and the same from my end.

Yes something like that. Seems a therapist can be genuine in some sense, but given that therapist self-disclosure and transparency are considered inappropriate, isn't it by definition a partial or quasi-authenticity? Or maybe the main question is -- to what extent can the client even know to whom they are talking?

Seems like it applies to others too, doctors would be an obvious one. But therapy to me is entirely different because of the intense intimacy, the level of client exposure and vulnerability, and the fact that psychological and emotional material is the main thing being exchanged.