An extract from a talk I did for the University of Nottingham for Transgender Day of Visibility (31/3/20), detailing some of the extra complications that exist for the trans community around this pandemic.
Please note, I use certain language in this video that is ingrained but not ideal – It’s interesting how when we’re tired and stressed we use less skilful words, for example:
- Trans people being on a “journey” is an unhelpful cliché.
- Most trans people who were assigned female at birth would prefer to refer to their upper body with the word “chest”.
- Gender incongruence has superseded the term gender dysphoria, according to the World Health Organisation, and is generally preferred in-community, although not by everyone.
A Feminist Challenging Transphobia 
I tend to use “dysphoria” of myself (in order to highlight the unpleasantness of my own experience), but would accept “incongruence” as an overall term that would include such dysphoric experiences.