Distancing from social gender dysphoria involves taking actions to avoid your triggers when feeling really intense social gender dysphoria. Just like avoiding things that trigger your physical gender dysphoria, you can also avoid certain people or events that do not affirm your gender.
Distancing from social gender dysphoria can include avoiding individuals who are not supportive of your gender identity, as well as binary-focused social events, and transphobic people – if these trigger gender dysphoria for you.
Avoiding Social Gender Dysphoria
Triggers
Examples
Avoidance Strategy
Misgendering
Dead naming, greetings, social interactions
Limit interactions with non-affirming individuals
Gendered Social Norms
Gendered language, being treated like assigned gender, sex segregated activities, enforcement of binary gender, lack of nonbinary representation
Do not partake in sex segregated actives
Family Interactions
Disrespect of gender identity, repeated use of dead name
Limit interactions with non-affirming family members
