I was a child and believed gender transition would heal my pain. It became a new trauma

In medicine, there are moments when speed is not only appropriate, but lifesaving. A patient in cardiac arrest cannot wait for medical attention. A child victim of a car wreck cannot afford debate around pulling her from the car. Doctors are trained to move quickly in true emergencies, where delay costs blood and oxygen. Speed in those moments is a true expression of care. 

What I’ve had to wrestle with in detransition is how my gender dysphoria was treated with such unrelenting urgency that it became a manufactured emergency.