If you desire to undergo gender transition, it can be difficult to know how to set goals. Especially when the end point seems impossible to achieve. Watch as I discuss ways you can set transition goals and how to keep your focus on upward trajectory.

It is challenging to come out to your partner. To anticipate their reaction and response. It is even more challenging when your partner puts forward and ultimatum! Watch as I discuss the truth behind ultimatums.

When you are going through transition, it is common to avoid taking the steps you fear. Even small, tiny, steps. Often waiting for confidence to increase before you feel comfortable taking steps you need to. And while it is OK to wait until you feel confident, there is another way you may want to consider when thinking about small fearful steps.

Variety of symptoms will spring to the surface when you struggle with Gender Dysphoria. Symptoms that may cluster together to appear to be another diagnosis. While sometimes another diagnosis is present, oftentimes there is a mis diagnosis of clustered symptoms. Watch as I discuss this in detail.

When you start coming out and expressing who you truly are toward others, you get varied responses. One of the responses often can come in a form of a push back from family and loved ones. Leaving you feeling as if your gender identity is an imposition on them.

As shared in the previous video, dissociation is a common defense mechanism in coping with Gender Dysphoria. While at first adaptive, it quickly becomes maladaptive and starts to interfere with your life. And many of you are hoping you will stop dissociating once you complete your transition. Watch as I discuss why this happens in this video.

As people, we employ a wide range of defense mechanisms in order to help us cope with painful, stressful, and traumatic events in our lives. And when one is struggling with Gender Dysphoria, the defense mechanisms become more dominant throughout the day. Dissociation, is one such defense mechanism and is very common among transgender people struggling with dysphoria.

It is common to feel as if you are not making any progress in your transition. Feeling stuck in the status quo of your every day life. These feelings are common especially a few months after starting transition and mid way through. And while it may “feel like stuck,” there is an underlying progression that is taking place.

Dealing with Gender Dysphoria on daily basis can be incredibly challenging. The long term effects of Gender Dysphoria do add up to a point of causing your mental health to collapse. Knowing of the two most dangerous long term effects can help you make that first step toward your liberation.

For those desiring gender affirming surgery, it is an important part of transition path. For others, it is not. If you do plan on gender affirming surgery, this could be a great book for you. It is full of accessible medical information tailored specifically for you and written by a medical doctor Sidhbh Gallagher, MD.

As you start feeling confident, you start feeling what I call “the hunger.” And as a result develop insatiable appetite for life which can also raise potential issues. Watch as I discuss these issues in detail in this video.

Recently I have been asked whether nonbinary identity is a stepping stone to a binary identity? This question does not have a straight answer. In fact, this questions is multi faceted,

Is there a finish line in transitionI Is it possible to fully complete one’s gender evolution? These are complex question that often fall into various degree of perception of what it means to “complete.”

Many of you expressed worry and fear that Gender Dysphoria may get worse with age. This is especially scary for those who want but fear transition and are hoping dysphoria will lessen as you get older. And while it may appear to lessen for some, Gender Dysphoria also may increase for many others.

A viewer asked me if justifying their gender identity to people around them can lead to developing a complex? Given that many gender diverse people often find themselves in position of “proving” their sense of Self to others. The truth is, yes it can. And often does.

There is a tendency to focus on the most dysphoric parts or attributes of yourself later in the transition. Understandably so. Given how much distress, emotional discomfort, and even trauma it can bring up. Yet I noticed, it is seldom the right approach to take.

Many people seek to masculinize or feminize their voice as part of their transition. Often believing they can start process later and master is quickly. While how quickly one can master their voice varies from person to person, there is another factor that plays a significant role.

People often ask me about social construction of gender and how it tends to affect our inner schema of Self. Some wonder, if gender is a social construct, why then do so many have a need to transition? A question that tends to overlap with numerous social, cultural, and environmental factors.

Many of you have extended histories of overcompensating with your assigned gender at birth. Often in a very binary ways such as joining an army or a cheerleader squad. Attempting to convince yourself you are not trans gender. Now, when you are ready to deal with gender dysphoria, history of overcompensating can affect your inner self certainty.