Ky Schevers

Convincing a trans person that they're trans because of trauma is incredibly harmful. It's a conversion practice. Lots of people like to make a connection between trauma and gender dysphoria but there's not much research or other evidence to back it up. People need to know that.

It's theoretically possible for trauma to cause gender dysphoria or something that resembles it but it's dangerous to assert a connection with such limited evidence and without taking into account how that could negatively impact trans people, particularly trans trauma survivors.

Trans people are already pathologized/stigmatized so heavily. Experiencing trauma can make you feel like there's something wrong with you. Unhealed trauma can be excruciating. All that can make trans trauma survivors especially vulnerable to conversion therapy/practices.

We need more research on how trans people are affected by trauma and potential interactions between gender dysphoria and trauma. Misinformation needs to be debunked and we need more information to create better resources for trans trauma survivors and people trying to untangle...

...gender dysphoria and trauma. There are plenty of detrans people talking about how trauma caused them to develop gender dysphoria but a lot of these people belong to very ideological groups and I know firsthand that it's possible to be indoctrinated into these theories.

If you go to ex-gay ministries, you can find a lot of people who believe trauma and bad family relationships made them develop "same-sex attractions" but a lot of people wouldn't take their stories at face value and research doesn't back them up. People can come to believe...