LGBT+

In Italy, Robert a 17-year-old student at a secondary school in Rome committed suicide. The victim had endured torment from his school mates over several years for being "transgender”.

I was an outpatient at hospital, and they did not have a section to record that I was in a civil partnership on their computer system. I was told that I was recorded on the computer as single.

Well, I was looking for a psychotherapist and I found one. After our first meeting, where I came out as lesbian, she told me she could not treat me without explaining clearly why. The psychotherapist only told me she believed that a male therapist would be better for me. She also told me she was too busy because she had too many patients. Ironically, an acquaintance of mine went to the same therapist one or two weeks later and the psychotherapist immediately accepted her as a client. So, I got confirmation of the rejection.

I remember one time before I transitioned when I first moved to Rome. I was on the train with my roommate, who was a cisgender woman. A young Italian guy was like, “Yo, yo ... is that a dude or is that a woman?”