The Multiple Lives of Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Psy Disciplines

在过去的二十年里，与LGBTIQ+人群一起开展各种形式的“多元化工作”已成为专业人士和活动人士在“多元化和包容性”框架下工作的要求，以此作为解决歧视非异性恋者、变性人和双性人的不平等结构的一种手段。作为这些努力的结果，学术、活动家和企业空间的多样性主流化显著增加。心理健康学科(心理学、精神病学、精神分析)也经历了类似的变化。作为对长期病理性的回应而引入的多样性，是为了修复和修复过去的错误，使尊重LGBTIQ+人的人权的研究和治疗干预成为可能。后者导致了对心理健康的肯定方法、LGBTIQ+文化能力培训和LGBTIQ+心理学学科领域的发展，美国和英国是此类模式的主要出口国之一，特别是在拉丁美洲。然而，公开和微妙的病态、监管和排斥形式仍然存在，甚至由那些在多样性框架内工作的人实施。我认为，这反映了多样性工作在带来学科和社会政策层面的结构性变化方面的缺陷。该奖学金旨在理解PSY学科中多样性工作带来的进步和挫折，不仅解释了它努力修复历史错误的努力，也质疑了多样性在产生性和性别监管的新形式方面的政治地位，这些监管通过正常化做法和绝对捕获机制发挥作用。我在博士研究中分析的不同形式的多样性工作和知识生产倡议重复了其中一些监管做法，特别是那些针对跨性别和性别多元化的做法，由于我在工作中探索的原因，他们受到职业把关做法的威胁，威胁到获得性别平权护理的机会。这个项目，PSY学科中的性和性别多样性的多重生活，通过进一步发展一些为我的博士研究提供信息的问题来解决其中的一些问题。特别是，在这个奖学金中，我将寻求探索一种非病理性的、肯定的和文化上称职的精神健康方法对LGBTIQ+多样性工作者意味着什么，以及对他们有什么帮助。为了回答这个问题，我将对我的博士研究中的现有数据进行二次分析，并与智利和英国的LGBTIQ+人群合作的精神健康从业者举办两次知识交流研讨会(详情请参阅支持案例)。鉴于多元化工作的地方仍然岌岌可危，以及智利和其他地方对性别平权护理的持续攻击，试图批判性地探索多样性工作对LGBTIQ+人群的生活和福祉的政治影响面临一个关键的两难境地：我们如何在不损害活动家、学者、服务用户和社区代表所阐述的工作的情况下开展这一关键努力？这个项目认真对待这一挑战，并提出了一条新的途径来探索一些仍然存在于PSY学科中的种族主义和病理性逻辑，需要给予批判性关注。性和性别多样性的多重生活促进了对LGBTIQ+人群多样性工作的了解，并提出了消除病态和解放政治的关键问题。这个项目源于并进一步发展了我的博士论文的发现，我将以一本书和一系列书面文章的形式出版，目标是从业者、学者和LGBTIQ+积极分子。该奖学金将使我能够制作这些材料，并介入正在进行的关于LGBTIQ+心理健康的讨论，我希望这将对那些依赖提供平权关怀的人的生活产生积极影响。

Over the last two decades, various forms of 'diversity work' with LGBTIQ+ people have become a requirement for professionals and activists working under the framework of 'diversity and inclusion' as a means to tackle the structures of inequalities that discriminate non-heterosexual, trans and intersex individuals. The mainstreaming of diversity in academic, activist and corporate spaces has increased significantly as a result of these efforts.The psy disciplines (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis) have undergone similar changes. Having been introduced as a response to a long history of pathologisation, diversity arrived to fix and repair past wrongs, enabling research and therapeutic interventions that are respectful of the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people. The latter has led to the development of affirmative approaches to mental health, LGBTIQ+ cultural competence training and a disciplinary field of LGBTIQ+ psychology, with the US and the UK being one of the main 'exporters' of such models, particularly in Latin America. However, overt and subtle forms of pathologisation, regulation and exclusion still exist and are implemented even by those working within a diversity framework. And this, I argue, is expressive of the flaws of diversity work in bringing about structural change at the disciplinary and social policy level.This fellowship aims to make sense of the progress and setbacks brought about by diversity work in the psy disciplines in ways that not only account for its efforts to repair historical wrongs, but also interrogates diversity's political place in producing new forms of sexual and gender regulation that act via practices of normalisation and mechanisms of categorical capture. Different forms of diversity work and knowledge production initiatives that I analysed in my doctoral research reproduce some of these regulative practices, particularly those aimed at trans and gender diverse people, who, for reasons I explore in my work, are subjected to practices of professional gatekeeping that threaten access to gender affirmative care.This project, The Multiple Lives of Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Psy Disciplines, addresses some of these issues by further developing some of the questions that informed my PhD research. In particular, in this fellowship I will seek to explore what a non-pathologising, affirmative and culturally competent approach to mental health means and does for LGBTIQ+ diversity workers. To answer this, I will undertake a secondary analysis of existing data from my doctoral study and run two knowledge exchange workshops with mental health practitioners working with LGBTIQ+ people in Chile and the UK (see Case for support for details).Given the still precarious place of diversity work and the ongoing attacks on gender affirmative care in Chile and elsewhere, attempts to critically explore the political effects of diversity work on the life and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ people face a crucial dilemma: How can we undertake that critical endeavour without compromising the work that activists, scholars, service users and community representatives have been articulating? This project takes this challenge seriously and suggests a novel path to explore some of the racist and pathologising logics still present in the psy disciplines that need critical attention.The Multiple Lives of Sexual and Gender Diversity advances knowledge about diversity work with LGBTIQ+ people and raises crucial questions for depathologising and liberatory politics. This project stems from and further develops the findings of my PhD thesis, which I will publish as a book and a series of written articles aimed at practitioners, scholars and LGBTIQ+ activists. The fellowship will allow me to produce these materials and intervene in ongoing discussions on LGBTIQ+ mental health, which I hope will positively impact the lives of those who rely on the provision of affirmative care for their wellbeing.