by Zinnia Jones — October 26, 2017
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Depersonalization in gender dysphoria
The Gender Analysis Depersonalization Project is our most significant original research program, working to elucidate the features of depersonalization (feelings of unreality) in the context of gender dysphoria and transition. We’re currently working with trans people as well as medical professionals and specialists, drawing on emerging research in the fields of psychiatry, neurochemistry, and psychopharmacology to develop a better picture of the nature and treatment of depersonalization in the transgender population.
- Start here: Depersonalization in gender dysphoria: Widespread and widely unrecognized (June 2017)
- In our own words: Transgender experiences of depersonalization (August 2017)
- “That was dysphoria?” Symptoms of indirect gender dysphoria (September 2013)
- Themes of depersonalization in transgender autobiographies, part 1 (Jan Morris) (September 2017)
- Depersonalization in transgender autobiographies, part 2 (Christine Jorgensen) (September 2017)
- Depersonalization in transgender autobiographies, part 3 (Jamison Green, Imogen Binnie, and more) (September 2017)
Transgender youth treatment and ethics
- Debunking misconceptions about trans youth (November 2016)
- Puberty blockers and fertility (October 2016)
- “We don’t let kids get tattoos”: Trans youth treatment, ethics, and decision-making (May 2017)
- Conservative Christian groups lie and attack 16-year-old trans girl (November 2013)
- Conservative activist lies and attacks 9-year-old trans girl (December 2016)
- Trans people, autism, and the two-faced claims of Ken Zucker and Susan Bradley (January 2017)
- Low-cost alternatives to puberty blockers for transgender adolescents (July 2017)
- Do all trans youth on puberty blockers go on to transition? (August 2017)
- Puberty blockers and vaginoplasty (June 2017)
Medical myths
- Autogynephilia and the misrepresentation of trans sexualities (March 2016)
- Investigating Walt Heyer and 22 reported cases of transition regret (July 2015)
- Paul McHugh misrepresents transition outcome studies from Johns Hopkins and Sweden (August 2015)
- Myth: “Being transgender is a mental illness” (August 2017)
- Myth: Pimozide and gender dysphoria (December 2016)
- Myth: “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” (June 2017)
- When it’s not “just autism”: ASD does not rule out gender dysphoria (August 2017)
Transgender healthcare and outcomes
- How sex hormones work for trans people (August 2016)
- Darker shades of pink: Having depression when you’re transgender (March 2014)
- Very low rate of transition regret among trans adolescents and adults (October 2016)
- Transphobic rejection: An ineffective and dangerous “treatment” (May 2017)
Analyzing concepts and language
- Definitional nonsense: The illogic of misgendering (July 2012)
- Stop calling trans women “male” (May 2015)
- Sex chromosomes: Cis expectations vs. trans reality (November 2015)
- When “biological reality” is neither real nor biological (March 2017)
- “Is a trans woman a woman?” The symbol and substance of words (August 2016)
- Elastic definitions of biological sex (August 2016)
- Counter-realities: Science denialism in transphobia (April 2017)
- Paul McHugh vs. Johns Hopkins: When arguments from authority collide (October 2016)
- Intellectual dishonesty and the relativism of personal opinion (April 2017)
- Why Rachel Dolezal is not like a trans person (March 2017)
- Why being a trans person is not like pretending to be Napoleon (August 2012)
- Fractals, not pyramids: Learning progresses from oversimplified absolutes to increasily complex details (May 2017)
- Medical professionals increasingly agree: Trans women are female, trans men are male (September 2017)
Public policy
- Trans people in restrooms and public facilities: Structural solutions for everyone’s comfort and privacy (February 2016)
- Manning trial: Being transgender doesn’t mean you’re “unstable” (December 2012)
- The humanity of Private Manning: My experience as a defense witness (July 2013)
- Behind the scenes at CNN: How the media fails on Chelsea Manning’s gender (August 2013)
- The paradox of passing: Why transphobic restroom laws are impossible to implement or enforce (June 2016)
- “Degrading military readiness”: Trans servicemembers speak out on Trump’s ban (July 2017)
- Truth trumps treachery: What Jamie Kirchick gets wrong about Chelsea Manning (August 2017)
