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I want to take a moment to attempt to dispel another case of bad science that is leveraged against the trans community by TERFs, ROGD parent groups, and some physicians that gender dysphoria naturally resolves in 85% of children #MedTwitter #LGBTQHealth #TransHealth 1/
At face value, this sounds like a scary statistic. I mean, if 85% of all children who experience gender dysphoria naturally resolve their feelings without medical or surgical interventions, it would seem like we are unnecessarily harming children. 2/
This statistic is used to support the idea of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) and "desistance" - the narrative that children realize that they are trans by virtue of social pressures and come to realize that they have made a mistake, often when it is "too late." 3/
