( HS Fielding 096282 2023) Centering Gender-Pleasure in Practice: Beyond Resolving Gender Dysphoria

Course overview

Too often the primary focus of gender affirmative care is the alleviation and resolution of gender dysphoria. But what if we could expand our clinical imagination and engage with clients in conversations that are more pleasure positive? This session will challenge attendees to look beyond gender dysphoria and consider ways of helping clients increase a sense of pleasure with ones embodied experience of a gender. It will explore ways of increasing alignment with ones embodied sense of a gender, feeling affirmed in ones a gender within social, sexual, and or intimate contexts, and feeling positive in ones body. It will also explore