if like to address this issue of regret of transition as it comes up a few times on here. and I don't know there case so. I can not comment on that other than to say having transitioned over 10 years ago too that if you were in the nhs there were a lot of hoops to jump through. I think that in private up to that time there was a willingness to just let poeple work it out for themselves and give them the tools to do it. so you could transition very quickly so within a year from start to finish. now I don't know what individual if that was the case but I have meet people who have done this and I have always tried to causion them as it take time to adjust to your life and transition is a good time to reflect on your life as all big transitions are in life.
The counciling aspect was always seen as something you had to do to get the medical stuff and I think this is wrong it's an opertunity to look at other aspects of your life and note them as needing attention when this is all done as something you will need to come back for, transition does not magicly fix all your problems but it can give you the chance to start to address them. it is certainly not all. unicorns and rainbows post transition it's just life as it was before but hopefully you are still in it. for a lot of us this really was the last option before the final option and that is not said lightly. it gives us a Chance to live, so many trans woman I have meet can not see a life past there 30S or growing old because we never planned to be around that long. A comman conversation between us is so what now, I never planned for this bit for growing old or building a life and it is this sometimes that poeple find hard. Transition takes us out of the normal world for 2-5 years in a lot of ways as we are focusing on that and when we get to the end it is often hard to return to normal life, and yes there are no services at the end they see you once and can not wait to get you out the door.
detransitioning is a complex issue that as a number of reasons, and very. few people offer any support but our community does support people more so now than it did then, as it is seen that there is not just one ture path and that people are just finding our way in life.