After the check
What now?
The check gives a score. Not a diagnosis, not advice to take steps or not. What the result is: a starting point to look at yourself more closely.
High score
Many yes-answers. The feelings are real, that much is certain. But a high score doesn't mean transition is the answer.
The next step is not the GP or a gender clinic. The next step is figuring out what else is going on underneath.
Average score
Some questions felt familiar, others didn't. That's the pattern for many young people in puberty — and for a great many adults.
Gender questions are then often a symptom of something else. Waiting and seeing is not denial — it's wise.
Low score
Few yes-answers. It's likely that what you feel is something other than being trans — discomfort with your body, with your role, or with how you feel.
That's real and deserves attention. But via a different track than gender.
What the check is not
Not a diagnosis. Gender dysphoria isn't established via an online questionnaire — and frankly, not via a single appointment with a psychologist either. What the check does: organise signals.
Not advice to transition. No score says: "start hormones." Quite the opposite — the higher your score, the bigger the reason to thoroughly investigate underlying causes first.
No cause for panic or haste. What you feel today doesn't have to be the same in a year. With young people, that's the rule rather than the exception.
Sensible first steps
1. No rush.
Give it a year before considering anything irreversible. No social transition, no new name, no clothing change. Waiting changes nothing — except that you see more clearly what's really going on.
2. Less online, more offline.
Leave trans Discord servers, unfollow trans creators on TikTok and Instagram. The less language you have for your feelings, the more space there is to look underneath.
3. Don't talk to everyone about it.
The more often you tell the story, the more it solidifies. Save it for one or two people you trust — and who don't immediately affirm.
4. Work on what else is going on.
Treat depression, understand autism, process trauma. If the gender feelings are then still equally strong, you know they weren't a symptom.
5. Don't go to an affirming psychologist.
In the Netherlands the standard path is: GP → psychologist → gender clinic → affirmation. Find someone who does broad diagnostics, not someone who has gender affirmation as a starting point.