“You’ve been seeing me since the Great Shift,” Dr. Lee explained to Graham, “And I get why. It’s been hard to adjust to suddenly changing genders. You’re not alone here. As a psychologist, I’ve recommended may for gender reassignment surgery to deal with the dysphoria they experienced.”
“Are you recommending surgery?” Graham asked nervously.
“Well, no, let me finish. You are certainly upset about the fact that you are now a woman. However, you are also fully accepting of the fact that you are a woman. You don’t talk about how you feel like a man on the inside, or --”
“But I WAS a man! Less than a year ago!”
“Did you notice how you use the word in the past tense? What do you feel like now? On the inside.”
Graham sighed, “A woman.” He hated that Dr. Lee was right. He may have hated the idea of being a woman, but the idea of going back to being a man just didn’t feel right. For a while, he told himself he was just afraid of the surgery, but he knew it wasn’t that either. He may have hated being a woman because of the Shift, but somehow he still knew he was a woman.
No comments:
Post a Comment