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When I came out to my family, my father and my brother both recommended that I do a reverse gender therapy consisting of two steps.
1. Take male hormones
2. Do reverse psycho therapy to "man up" - such as learning dating, learning how to act macho
This is an obviously dumb idea to me, and for anyone who identifies as trans - as the opposite of their birth gender - this obviously won't work. I have no plans of trying this. In fact, I am planning on purging my male clothes soon. I will let you know when I do that.
I simply want to know if anyone here has tried either of the two steps above before starting transition? Are these ideas my father put out there just completely idiotic ideas that no one has ever tried, idiotic ideas that some of us have tried, or maybe a legit path to try before you consider transition?
I will start by saying no to #1. If you count the psychics attempts to get me to "man up" than yes to #2, but the psychic is an illegitimate entity anyways. Arguably many of us did try to "man up" without the help of therapy - we just did it naturally, or maybe with the help of drugs and alcohol.