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

在过去的二十年里，与LGBTIQ+人群开展各种形式的“多样性工作”已成为在“多样性和包容性”框架下工作的专业人士和活动家的一项要求，作为解决歧视非异性恋，跨性别和双性个体的不平等结构的一种手段。由于这些努力，学术界、活动家和企业界的多样性主流化显著增加，心理学学科（心理学、精神病学、精神分析）也经历了类似的变化。作为对长期病理化历史的回应，多样性已经到来，以修复和修复过去的错误，使研究和治疗干预能够尊重LGBTIQ+人群的人权。后者导致了心理健康，LGBTIQ+文化能力培训和LGBTIQ+心理学学科领域的积极方法的发展，美国和英国是这种模式的主要“出口商”之一，特别是在拉丁美洲。然而，公开和微妙形式的病态化，监管和排斥仍然存在，甚至由那些在多样性框架内工作的人实施。我认为，这是多样性工作在学科和社会政策层面带来结构性变化的缺陷的表现。这个奖学金旨在理解心理学学科多样性工作带来的进步和挫折，不仅要解释它努力修复历史错误的方式，也质疑多样性在产生新形式的性和性别调节中的政治地位，这些调节通过正常化的实践和分类捕获的机制起作用。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再现了其中一些监管做法，特别是那些针对跨性别和性别多样性的人，由于我在工作中探索的原因，他们受到专业守门的做法，威胁到获得性别平等权利关怀。通过进一步发展我的博士研究中的一些问题，解决了其中的一些问题。特别是，在这个奖学金，我将寻求探索什么非病理化，肯定和文化能力的方法来心理健康的手段，并为LGBTIQ+多样性工作者。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，并与智利和英国从事LGBTIQ+人群工作的心理健康从业者进行两次知识交流研讨会（详情见案例支持）.鉴于多样性工作的地位仍然岌岌可危，以及智利和其他地方对性别平等扶持护理的持续攻击，试图批判性地探索多样性工作对LGBTIQ+人群生活和福祉的政治影响面临着一个关键的困境：我们如何在不损害活动家，学者，服务用户和社区代表一直在阐述的工作的情况下进行这一关键的努力？这个项目认真对待这一挑战，并提出了一个新的路径，探索一些种族主义和病态逻辑仍然存在于心理学学科，需要严格关注。性和性别多样性的多重生活推进知识的多样性工作与LGBTIQ+人，并提出了关键问题的病态和解放的政治。这个项目源于并进一步发展了我的博士论文的发现，我将出版一本书和一系列针对从业者，学者和LGBTIQ+活动家的书面文章。该奖学金将使我能够制作这些材料，并参与正在进行的关于LGBTIQ+心理健康的讨论，我希望这将对那些依赖于为他们的福祉提供平权护理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.