Hi, I really liked this article. The ideas you're developing here ring some bells for me personally and are very similar to a theory of transsexuality I'm developing based my own experiences and grounded in Early Maladaptive Schema (EMS) Theory. I'd like to write a sort of response to this article, recontextualizing this theory as potentially a special case of a broader EMS-Transsexualism framework, I hope that's okay
Hi, I think @gynemimesis on twitter (x) has been doing surveys including variables like hypermobility. I'd also like to recommend some of my own work. My surveys haven't exactly touched on all of these things you mention, but you might find this one interesting.
Dissecting Gender Dysphoria: Personal Theories & Narratives of MtF Transsexuals (Substack)
This is a write-up for an online convenience survey (sourcing mostly from twitter and reddit, n=72) I put out with two main goals:
The first goal was to see how trans people responded to a questionnair... (read more)