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 I think they're pulling most of this stuff from the DSM and other similar texts, which are severely outdated-- and thus why I think it's so important that a survey like this is being given.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 @starkatt yeah the 3rd scale might actually have been useful for egg-me, despite all the binary language
i had so much difficulty articulating "aha, this is a specific thing that sometimes makes me uncomfortable" or "aha, this is a specific thing that i have sometimes thought I might want," let alone believing "oh here are some ways to do something about it without first being absolutely sure"
gender dysphoria survey!
@mawr @literorrery @green @starkatt and if it were used as an assessment tool with a cut score of approximately 0, and the follow-up actions were "discuss any positive answers and ensure access to transition steps, but also don't come on super-strongly with 'uwu you can just be $(gender) if you want uwu' because that's kind of A Lot to handle for someone who still thinks they're probably cis" i could see it doing some serious good
but that's probably a utopian fantasy :/
gender dysphoria survey!
@mxsparks @mawr @literorrery @green So I've been thinking about this a lot more, and I think the takeaway is that what we need isn't an assessment scale, it's a list of question prompts?
gender dysphoria survey!
@mxsparks @mawr @literorrery @green Hm though. There really isn't a solution to circumvent the amount of damage a clueless therapist could still do, save for a whole lot of training.
