Sometimes I'll see something Brianna Wu says about the history of being trans and the reasons for some older policy or another and I'm just like… did you and I see the same guidelines? Because I know for a fact what you are describing was never part of WPATH nor HBS at the very least.
I won't discount the possibility that you specifically had some weird set of corner cases to jump through, that absolutely happened, but sometimes it's just like… what?