• Gender Congruence and Life Satisfaction Scale (GCLS)

  • Date*
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    2 digit month, 2 digit day, 4 digit year

  • Below is a range of statements about how you might feel in relation to your gender, mental well-being, and life satisfaction. Please respond to each statement, thinking about how frequently you have felt like this in the past 6 months.

    Please note that when talking about ‘‘gender identity” we mean one's internal sense of one's self as a man, a woman, or some other gender.

  • Please rate each statement as: NEVER (N), RARELY (R), SOMETIMES (S), OFTEN (O), or ALWAYS (A).

    In the past 6 months, due to the distress about my gender (i.e., the distress caused as the gender I was assigned at birth does not match with my gender identity):

  • 1. I have avoided social situations and/or social interactions*
  • 2. I have not gone to school/college/work*
  • 3. I have not been able to have emotional relationships with other people*
  • 4. I have suffered from anxiety*
  • 5. I have not been able to be physically intimate with other people*
  • 6. I have been unable to leave the house*
  • 7. I have found it difficult to make friends*
  • 8. I have thought about cutting or hurting my chest, genitals, and/or surrounding areas*
  • 9. I have felt that life is meaningless*
  • 10. I have not enjoyed life*
  • 11. I have not engaged in leisure activities*
  • 12. I have suffered from low mood*
  • 13. I have thought about hurting myself or taking my own life*

  • Please rate each statement as: NEVER (N), RARELY (R), SOMETIMES (S), OFTEN (O), or ALWAYS (A).

    In the past 6 months:

  • 14. I have felt distressed when touching my genitals as they do not match my gender identity*
  • 15. I have felt so distressed about my chest that I have not been able to have a fulfilling life*
  • 16. I have felt comfortable with how others have perceived my gender*
  • 17. I have felt that my body hair conflicts with my gender identity, either because I have it and do not like it or because I would like to have it*
  • 18. I have felt like my chest does not match my gender identity*
  • 19. I have found it distressing that others do not address me according to my gender identity*
  • 20. I have felt satisfied with the pronouns that others use when talking about me*
  • 21. I have felt unhappy about my genitalia since they do not match my gender identity*
  • 22. I have felt comfortable with how other people perceive my gender based on my physical appearance*
  • 23. I have felt that my voice has affected the way other people have perceived my gender identity which has been distressing for me*
  • 24. I have felt that my facial hair conflicts with my gender identity, either because I have it and do not like it or because I would like to have it*
  • 25. I have felt that my genitals do match with my gender identity*
  • 26. I have felt that genital surgery will address the unhappiness I experience in relation to my gender*
  • 27. I have been unable to have a fulfilling life because of the distress relating to my genitalia*
  • 28. I have felt extremely distressed when looking at my chest*
  • 29. I have felt extremely distressed when looking at my genitals*
  • 30. I have felt satisfied with my chest*

  • Please rate each statement as: NEVER (N), RARELY (R), SOMETIMES (S), OFTEN (O), or ALWAYS (A).

    Next, we would like to know how satisfied you have been with your life for the last 6 months:

  • 31. I have felt satisfied at school/college/work*
  • 32. I have felt satisfied with my emotional relationship(s)*
  • 33. I have felt satisfied with my sex life*
  • 34. I have felt satisfied in my leisure activities and hobbies*
  • 35. I have not felt satisfied with my friends*
  • 36. I have felt satisfied with the support I have received from other significant people*
  • 37. I have not felt satisfied with my health*
  • 38. I have felt satisfied with life in general*
  • Should be Empty: