gender dysphoria survey!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Gender-Dysphoria
"During the survey, you will be asked to think about your experiences of gender dysphoria and provide examples of these feelings. You will also be presented with traditional measures of gender dysphoria and asked how well they capture, or fail to capture, your experiences. We hope to use this information to improve existing measures and the current understanding of dysphoria."
M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D.
Lex Pulice-Farrow, M.A.
Towson University
gender dysphoria survey!
@mxsparks I'll be honest that sounds like it could be used to make an assessment screening and I want no part in that.
gender dysphoria survey!
@literorrery @green @mxsparks @starkatt
I've been writing comments to them about that. I think they're pulling most of this stuff from the DSM and other similar texts, which are severely outdated-- and thus why I think it's so important that a survey like this is being given.
gender dysphoria survey!
@starkatt @mxsparks @green @literorrery
A comment I've now started copying and pasting in my responses for "why you disagree with...":
"I am neither male nor female; gender is not binary and that description is predicated on binary gender."
gender dysphoria survey!
@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks okay that makes me more tempted to take it and do the same.
gender dysphoria survey!
@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks
"The idea of strict diagnostic criteria for assessing whether someone is trans or not is immoral and violent. We know who we are better than assessing clinicians. Any attempt to make a diagnostic cutoff for whether someone is "really" trans or not will inevitably lead to people being unfairly excluded if they don't match the criteria.
It's not your job to tell us whether we're trans or not. We know. "
gender dysphoria survey!
@starkatt @mxsparks @green @literorrery
But not all of us _do_ know. "Eggs" are common on the fringes of trans communities, completely miserable and convinced that they're not really trans, or not "trans enough" to transition into a happier life.
I got my diagnosis from a therapist ~13 years ago, and it was the tipping point that gave me confidence to pursue my transition. Many of us don't have supportive trans folks to give us the confidence to start the journey. ^^;
gender dysphoria survey!
@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks Okay, fair. I still don't feel like a clinical scale is the best way to assess that, though? I'm just so, so afraid of it leaving people out in the cold.
gender dysphoria survey!
@starkatt @mxsparks @green @literorrery
Oh gods, the scales in that survey were HORRIBLE. Don't get me wrong! That said, a better written scale would be super helpful. Ultimately, the scales are just tools that force people to introspect and come to their own conclusions.
Too many medical professionals view those scales as written by the Official Transgenderereded Community Cheiftans ordained by THE GODS, though. "Oh you didn't say yes to all of that? Not trans."
gender dysphoria survey!
@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks Yeah I don't trust clinicians as a whole to treat scales as anything *but* gospel. Some know better, but far, far too many don't.
gender dysphoria survey!
@mawr @green @mxsparks @starkatt This is, I think, a fundamental failing of modern society. The presentation of anything qualitative in quantitative terms will eventually be reduced to quantitative evaluation regardless of qualitative analysis, because that's the only way to operate at scale. Some experiences defy quantification, and modern society is at a loss as to how to deal with those experiences.
gender dysphoria survey!
@literorrery @mawr @green @mxsparks :applause:
also it sure sounds like that applies to your current healthcare struggles.