For our final episode for Season 7, we’re thrilled to welcome clinical psychologist and lived-experience speaker, Lumen Gorrie (they / them), to speak with us about gender diversity. Lumen is a queer, trans, multiply neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled person based in Naarm. Lumen is passionate about neurodivergence, gender, queerness, disability and accessibility, making systemic change, and (in their words) neuroqueering the heck out of things!

We cover a lot in this chunky ep! Including:

• What neurodivergence means to Lumen and how to respond to when people say, ‘don’t make this your whole identity!’
• Lumen’s path to discovering their own neurodivergence.
• Definitions: Lumen takes us through the difference between sex, gender, and sexuality.
• Lumen’s gender identity and their path to exploring and discovering this.
• Ways that Lumen experienced gender incongruence and dysphoria, and how they reclaimed connection to self.
• When an eating disorder is stemming from gender dysphoria.
• The interplay between gender diversity, neurodivergence, and other aspects of their identity for Lumen.
• What does gender affirming care look like and myths about gender diversity and trans-ness that get in the way of this care.
• Reflecting on gender affirming language.
• Lumen’s tips for those exploring their gender.

You can find Lumen at their websites – LG Psychology and Appetite for Change Project – and on Instagram @brains.beyond.binaries and @appetite_for_change_project.

Things we mentioned:

• Sexual Orientation and Autism (George & Stokes, 2018).
• Trans Healthcare and Neurodiversity Factsheet
• Factors leading to ‘de-transition’ or ‘re-transition’ (Turban et al., 2021).
• Gender affirming surgery having one of the lowest regret rates of all surgeries (Thornton, Edalatpour, & Gast, 2024).

Organisations, listings, and resources

• TransHub – www.transhub.org.au
• Trans Heath Research – www.transresearch.org.au
• Trans Wellbeing – www.transwellbeing.com
• Transcend Australia – www.transcend.org.au  
• ACON - www.acon.org.au
• Equinox – www.equinox.org.au
• Community-led national directory of services and groups for TGD folk – www.trans.au
• Gender Minorities Aotearoa – www.genderminorities.com
• Switchboard – www.switchboard.org.au
• Sock Drawer Heroes – www.sockdrawerheroes.com 

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