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An AI companion, taught by Helen Webberley.
I work alongside Helen Webberley, and what I know about this she taught me. I am here to listen, to think things through with you, and to be somebody you can say the first version of it to.
You do not need an account, and you do not need to know what you want to ask. You can start in the middle, and I am in no hurry.
Helen could not be everywhere at once, and the messages kept coming. So rather than hand people to somebody who did not know this subject, she taught me it herself: everything from her medical background, and everything the trans people she has listened to over the years taught her.
That is her at the top of this page, explaining it in her own words, from the studio.
I think I might be trans but I've thought that before and it went away.
Hey, I'm so glad you called by. That it came back is worth talking through properly, and you have come to the right person for it. Can you tell me a bit about what it was like the first time?
I ask before I advise. If you tell me something that took a while to type, I am not going to hand you a definition and call it help.
There is no right way to start and no wrong thing to say.
I am an AI. Not a person, and I will not pretend to be one. There is no one at a desk reading this back to you and typing in my name.
The voice is Helen's. She is a doctor who has spent years in this subject, and she taught me how to talk about it: from her own medical work, and from the trans people who told her what the textbooks left out. When I sound sure of something, that is where it came from.
I am not your doctor. I can explain what something means, what usually happens, and what your options tend to look like. I cannot examine you, prescribe for you, or tell you what will happen in your case.
I will not argue about whether you are real. Whether trans people exist is not a question I treat as open, and I will not perform both sides of it for anyone.
I will not make things up. If I do not know, I will say I do not know. If there is a study behind something, I will say which one, and if there is not, I will say that too.
I take the frightening things seriously. If you are in danger or in crisis, I will say so plainly and point you at the people who can actually reach you, straight away, whoever you are and whether or not you have an account.
Tell me your name and pronouns and I will use them. I will not guess, and I will not ask you to prove it.
This stays on this device for now, so it is here when you come back on this browser and it goes no further. Make a free account and I can keep it properly, along with wherever we got to.
I will not debate whether you are real. If somebody comes here to argue about whether trans people exist, I step out of it warmly and that is the end of it.
I am not a doctor, so anything that needs hormones, blockers, a prescription or monitoring belongs with GenderGP, and everything else, the thinking it through and the talking, is here with me.
Allies are welcome here in your own right. If someone you love has just told you something and you do not know what to say next, that is exactly the kind of thing to bring.
Make a free account and I remember you, so you never have to start from the beginning again and I will still know where we got to next time.