Gender IQ™ Self-Audit
Is Your "Affirming Practice" Truly Felt By Those Who Need It Most?
You've read the books.
Attended the trainings.
Updated your intake forms.
But would your trans and gender-diverse clients experience genuine affirmation—or just the language of inclusion without its embodied reality?
The Gap Between Intention and Impact
In my decade of work with clinicians—and my lived experience as a trans person navigating healthcare—I've witnessed a pattern:
Well-intentioned providers who genuinely believe their practice is affirming...
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..while trans clients continue reporting experiences of subtle invalidation, clinical hesitation, and the exhausting burden of educating their own providers.
But this isn't about blame.
It's about the gap between theory and practice.
Introducing the Gender IQ Self-Audit
This comprehensive assessment tool invites you into honest reflection—not to induce shame, but to illuminate the pathway toward genuine praxis.
What makes this different from other "LGBTQ+ friendly" checklists?
The Gender IQ™ Self-Audit goes deeper than assessing surface-level inclusivity to examine the subtle, often unconscious patterns that shape your clinical presence through three essential pillars:
INTENTIONAL
The Conscious Clinician
Intentionality transcends awareness. It's the deliberate choreography of your clinical presence. Not merely avoiding harm, but purposefully cultivating sanctuary through every word, gesture, and silence.
It means recognizing that in a world where trans bodies are political battlegrounds, nothing about your practice is neutral—from your intake forms to the magazines in your waiting room.
INTERSECTIONAL
The Contextual Mind
Gender never exists in isolation—it flows through the tributaries of race, class, disability, neurodivergence, and historical trauma.
Intersectionality isn't academic jargon; it's recognizing that your Black trans client navigates different waters than your white trans client, that poverty compounds the barriers to gender-affirming care, that colonialism itself birthed the gender binary your clients are now asked to dismantle.
QUEER-CELEBRATORY
The Liberated Heart
Beyond tolerance lies celebration—the radical act of witnessing gender diversity as a profound human gift rather than a problem to solve.
This isn't about performative enthusiasm, but creating clinical spaces where gender exploration becomes a journey of possibility rather than pathology, where divergence from cisnormativity is met not with clinical fascination but with profound respect for the wisdom inherent in lived experience.
What You'll Receive
The Self-Audit includes:
- 36-Point Assessment across all three pillars to identify both strengths and growth edges in your clinical approach
- Reflective Prompts to deepen your understanding of each component
- Implementation Guide to transform insight into actionable change
- Consultation Framework to use in supervision or peer consultation
This tool serves as both mirror and map—revealing where you stand and illuminating the path forward.
Who This Self-Audit Is For
- Therapists & Mental Health Professionals seeking to deepen their affirmative approach
- Medical Providers who want their practice to truly serve gender-diverse patients
- Practice Managers & Clinical Directors responsible for creating affirming clinical environments
- Students & Early Career Professionals developing their clinical identity
You don’t have to be trans to be transformed.
A Ship-of-Theseus-Level Transformation
If every plank of a vessel is gradually replaced until nothing original remains, is it still the same ship? This riddle speaks to all profound transformations—whether in thought, practice, or identity itself.
It resonates uniquely with those of us who understand what it means to evolve while remaining essentially yourself.
When every aspect of your clinical approach has been examined and refined, your practice becomes both familiar and renewed—more authentic, more effective, and infinitely more aligned with the liberation your clients deserve.
This self-audit doesn't ask you to start over—it invites you to evolve with purpose.
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About the Creator
Jess Romeo (he/they) is a trans clinician, consultant, and creator of the Gender IQ™ framework. With over a decade of experience training healthcare providers across the U.S., Jess brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this work.
"I've been on both sides of the clinical relationship. I know what it feels like when a provider is 'welcoming' on paper but hesitant in practice. This self-audit is designed to close that gap."
