A Quokka Dreeds its Weird

Ah, I wish the therapists I was sent to as a teenager had taken this stuff to heart. I met the criteria for depression... but I also had gender dysphoria, and my own self-assessment was that this was the root cause of the depression. Yet I kept getting these people who were absolutely stuck on the idea that Depression Was The Diagnosis and meds for depression were the only viable treatment. My parents, perhaps unsurprisingly, really liked that idea too.

But guess what? Depression meds don't make a trans person not trans anymore! Getting appropriate help with transition, however, did make me not depressed anymore, with no depression meds required.