transgender congruence scale
The Transgender Congruence Scale (TCS) was developed by Kozee, Tylka, and Bauerband (2012) to assess the degree of comfort trans* people feel with their gender identity and external appearance.
what is this good for?
Social workers could use this scale with trans* clients to help them assess and discuss their feelings about their body and gender identity.
directions
Gender identity is defined as the gender(s) that you experience yourself as; it is not necessarily related to your assigned gender at birth. For the following items, please indicate the response that best describes your experience over the past two weeks.
scoring
Reverse score items 6, 8, and 10 (where 1 = 5, 2 = 4, 3 = 3, 4 = 2, 5 = 1).
To arrive at the total scale score average the responses of the 12 items.
For the Appearance Congruence subscale, average responses to items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
For the Gender Identity Acceptance subscale, average responses to items 10, 11, and 12.
To arrive at the total scale score average the responses of the 12 items.
For the Appearance Congruence subscale, average responses to items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
For the Gender Identity Acceptance subscale, average responses to items 10, 11, and 12.