I'll try to keep this short.
On Friday I went to my weekly therapy session. And we got to talking about great stories and world building. And she mentioned Harry Potter as an example. I politely agreed but said that Rowling is kind of a dick because of her behaviour towards trans people.
And
safe to say, that was a trigger for my therapist. They went on a rather intense rant on how trans people aren't valid. That they're just men trying to gain power over women or perverts, trying to invade womens spaces. That They're best case: mentally ill and delusional and don't deserve to be called women.
That fucking hurt. A lot.
I didn't argue right then, and just said I don't know enough to make a case for anything in that topic. Then we were out of time and I went home. I cried in the evening. I felt horrible about myself and my body and my brain. My therapist doesn't know I'm trans. I've barely been there yet, and I don't tell that to a lot of people. So this really wasn't personal.
She doesn't have a doctorate so I guess her "viewpoint" comes from maybe a lack of education??? Idk. I am just unsure of what to do now. I was looking for therapy for such an enormous amount of time, this was the only regular spot I could find at all and now we have this issue.
I don't want to have to go through the process of uncertainty and constant search again. But I am not going to therapy just to hide myself to not upset someone.
I think there might be the possibility of me changing her mind, but I don't know if any attempt here could actually do something. Especially since that would be another project to add to an already big to-do list for me. I guess I would appreciate some advice from y'all on how I should handle this situation going forward. Maybe some of you went through similar situations. Thanks.