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RantSmall victory. I complained, they investigated and apologized.
I attended a partial hospitalization program (day program) for depression and anxiety. Amongst other problems I had with them, some of them were gender related because they take an “affirmative” approach. I dropped out the program later and wrote them a complaint. They investigated it. Said my points were substantiated and they will try to make their approach more “inclusive” to people like me next time. Basically I had complained that I was coerced to use language (use of pronouns) that didn’t cohere with my cultural and religious beliefs and that it felt prescriptive. I told them being asked to provide a pronoun each time a new person arrives puts me in a very uncomfortable spot. I also complained about the time I told my assigned caseworker that I felt badly about my breasts and she immediately popped out the question “do you feel that your brain and your body doesn’t match?.” When I told her her question was premeditated on a transgender leaning answer, she got mad and said “no that’s a direct question.” In any case, I filed the complaint, the board of directors actually respectfully listened to me, and later told me that in the future they will work with the hospital to not exclude anyone, presumably someone like me.
My leverage was that I am a Chinese woman and that psycholinguistics (whatever that means) matter to me and transgender approach messes with my cultural dictates. I imagine that has some clout especially since we are considered sort of minority and goodness knows they don’t want reports of discrimination against yellow people right now. My other leverage that I am also religious and that within my reality there are only two sexes and they’re asking me to violate something that is actually sacred to me.
So there’s that.
I know some of you here abhor religion and particularly Christianity. I am an asian non-denom Christian and I attend a multi ethnic church. We don’t really mess with white church politics and do our own thing. I can understand your resentments. The only thing for me is that I don’t think I would’ve even cared as much if it wasn’t for the fact that liberal media is asking me to bend sacred doctrine for them and that felt violating. Two other things peaked me was my ex fiancé was an AGP and left me last minute because he felt he was “too female and gay” for me. The other thing was that I read Abigail Shrier Irreversible Damage and it made me sick to learn about puberty blockers. Also my old friends in college are all somehow coming out trans or non-bi. they’ve had mental health problems for years prior. It freaked me out. Anyways/ end ramble!
Edit: A few of you asked how Christian identity informs/helps me of the dignity and sanctity of womanhood and what I had meant earlier. If interested here is an article that says a bit about what Christianity has done for women in the past. I get people who tell me that my religion is patriarchal and oppressive (the caseworker said “you DO know that your religion is written by men right?” and it was the very condescending. She was implying that I was a brain washed handmaiden sheep as if I haven’t ever gave this a thought when I came to faith at age 25.)
https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/women-and-development-a-faith-perspective/