I've been looking everywhere for actual pdfs of forensic psychology instruments for competency to stand trial but so far I've found nothing that isn't tightly hidden behind a paywall. I don't feel like traveling to my local university library and hunting down the physical copy either lol. If anyone has the right login, the canonical standard is this one (
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.128.1.105 ) So far, the best I've found is just this collection of the different possible measures available which is still very interesting.
https://arizonaforensics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Forensic-Tests.pdf
The takeaway is that whatever clinician administered the test had a very wide margin within their professional judgement to decide what exactly they were testing for. Some of them focus extremely narrowly around court proceedings while others are more general tests of 'sanity'. Unfortunately, it seems like even taking our assumption about incompetency as true we can't confidently infer anything about what Chris's mental state is.
One interesting article I found along the way was this one where the authors test a treatment method to get defendants to comprehend courtroom proceedings where they have the patients play with models of the court room:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bsl.775 . I wanted to mention it because means it's in the realm of possibility that they lean into Chris's interests and use a legos model of the court room to train him to stand trial. It's just such a perfect confluence of all of the story so far that I feel I have to share.
I'm not convinced Chris is delusional (in the technical sense, that would make him schizophrenic). He's a person of extraordinarily low aptitude with childish fantasies but his desire to constantly engage in escapism strikes me as less a result of a sickly mind being fed too much children's entertainment and more of a natural response of an incredibly lonely, depressed idiot who can't engage with the real world.
^this
My fantasies are limited to daydreams of a coffee date and getting to know the cute waitress at my local bar. Maybe the occasional fantasy of me and her watching foreign films and cuddling on the couch.
Yeah, but now imagine you've been living the most disgustingly depressing and hollow life for decades. Maybe you start putting that foreign film on and indulge your fantasy a little more, imagining what it would be like. Then maybe after another year of wakeup -> sheetz -> jerk off -> sheetz -> jerkoff -> bed you imagine what your conversations would be after the movie and after a while you say your comments out loud to cope a little more. And on and on from there. As a functional person, you'd probably recognize that this isn't normal and make steps to change your situation, but Chris lacks the will, awareness, or any positive influence to make that realization.
The point isn't that Chris is just doing a normal thing; that's obviously not the case. Instead, it's that these behaviors aren't schizophrenia or hallucinations. It's cope taken to such a ludicrous extreme that the state is obligated to step in.
Gender reassignment surgery (or whatever they call it) isn’t that common and Chris hasn’t seemed to want it, at least not immediately. Changing appearance and pronouns is usually all that happens.
I know the general attitude towards GRS practitioners here and there are certainly some ridiculous cases but I absolutely do not believe any surgeon would ever accept Chris as a client for an extremely invasive elective surgery unless it's a side-hustle by an overseas, back-alley veterinarian. Chris wouldn't even be able to pretend like he would follow hygiene or wound care guidelines and would develop fatal sepsis so quickly that a jury would probably return a homicide verdict against the doctor, let alone gross malpractice.
