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My Gender “Richter” Scale
The TEEH Scale: The Transgender Extreme Emotional Heartache Scale
I have read so many stories, articles and biographies by transgender women. They have each tried to make their life experience relatable to us and cisgender individuals as they tell their individual stories. There are so many different paths but they reflect very similar journeys.
They all describe an intangibility, much like love.
I accept that I love and I accept that I am transgender and I accept that I am suffering from gender dysphoria. No one challenges me when I say I am in love. Many have experienced it in their lives, but they have no connection to being transgender and gender dysphoria.
I refuse to let them walk away from me without attempting to remove the ignorance that surrounds the concepts. I am not passive. I was once described as a moral pit bull. I carry that label with pride.
I have read countless professional papers analyzing the condition of gender dysphoria and they all have fallen short in providing a reasonable level of confidence in arriving at the reality of its existence as a medical condition. They leave so many avenues for doubt.
Compared to other medical conditions, it has fallen between the cracks of medicine and psychoanalysis. Both have failed in creating the requisite clear…
