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My daughter, who had freedom throughout her childhood to play with whatever she liked and dress however she liked, suddenly announced she was trans in 2018, in a weirdly scripted note. English is her best subject at school and this wasn't written like her.
We didn't know anything about it - it was all new to us - and had never heard of ROGD. Huge learning curve. All signs - even close friends - urged us to go to the Tavistock and Mermaids, and "get puberty blockers to put puberty on hold", as though they were sweets.
But none of it made sense. It seemed like a tripwire too - certain questions would trigger a hugely negative and defensive response. Nothing like how our daughter used to be. We really wanted to understand. We love her so much, yet somehow she had decided we would hate her.
🧵#ROGD
Imagine if, all of a sudden, there was an explosion of middle-aged men suffering from anorexia. Emaciated men were everywhere,but no one was allowed to investigate the cause. We all had to pretend it was perfectly normal. Wouldn't that be weird?/1
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Imagine if, all of a sudden, there was an explosion of middle-aged men suffering from anorexia. Emaciated men were everywhere,but no one was allowed to investigate the cause. We all had to pretend it was perfectly normal. Wouldn't that be weird?/1
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Well that's exactly what happened with gender dysphoria, but in reverse. A condition that historically affected predominantly middle-aged men suddenly, around the mid-2010s, started to strike teenage girls, and people are forbidden from asking why./2
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In 2018 Lisa Littman conducted the first study of this group,using methodologies that are considered perfectly acceptable when used in studies that support gender-affirming care for children. Nevertheless the backlash from trans activists was swift and vicious/3
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Soy Nagore, tengo 21 años, soy estudiante de Psicología y desistidora, y esta es mi historia con la DGIR (Disforia de Género de Inicio Rápido).
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Desde que soy pequeña he sentido que no encajo con los demás. Que no les entiendo, que no me entienden. Que soy diferente.
Me gustaba jugar con coches, llevar pantalones, escalar por los parques, correr de un lado a otro y, sobre todo, las manualidades.
Me gustaba jugar con coches, llevar pantalones, escalar por los parques, correr de un lado a otro y, sobre todo, las manualidades.
Sentía que las niñas no me entendían. Les gustaban las princesas (que yo detestaba), jugar con muñecas, jugar a juegos que yo no entendía...
Por otro lado, los chicos... Tampoco. También jugaban a juegos "raros". Tampoco estaba yo integrada con ellos.
Por otro lado, los chicos... Tampoco. También jugaban a juegos "raros". Tampoco estaba yo integrada con ellos.
DRUM ROLL: It’s #RogdAwarenessDay August 16th, & we’ve released our videos about #ROGD on our Youtube channel today!
We call on @BACP @rcpsych @AmerAcadPeds to read this thread about ROGD.
We’ll begin with this clip of Dr Littman explaining ROGD
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We call on @BACP @rcpsych @AmerAcadPeds to read this thread about ROGD.
We’ll begin with this clip of Dr Littman explaining ROGD
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On August 16, 2018, PLOS ONE published @LisaLittman1’s study of 256 parental reports of adolescents experiencing a phenomenon described by Littman as ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ #ROGD
In this Youtube video Dr Littman gives her hypothesis on ROGD: 2/10
In this Youtube video Dr Littman gives her hypothesis on ROGD: 2/10
Littman coined the term #ROGD to describe this unexplained phenomenon.
In this compelling Youtube clip Dr Dave Bell describes the concerns in GIDS at the Tavistock about these GD teens
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In this compelling Youtube clip Dr Dave Bell describes the concerns in GIDS at the Tavistock about these GD teens
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A year ago, I had never heard of #ROGD #DIGR. Until I received “the letter”. My 15-year-old son, who has never had any problems with his body or his sex, tells me that he is a girl. When I started reading “the letter” I thought that it was announcing his homosexuality, that it
was going to be liberating, that it was a sign of growth, that we were going to be able to talk about it and that perhaps it was related to his deep depression. That was not what I read. I read the unexpected, the nonsense: I spent years taking care of his childhood and reading
his feelings, his needs. That girl never showed up. As a society, we were living the backlash of child sexual abuse, which taught us that children must be believed, we came back from recognizing that homosexuality should never be questioned or demonized. My progressivism and
Hace un año, nunca había oído acerca de #ROGD #DIGR. Hasta que recibí “la carta”. Mi hijo de 15 años, que nunca tuvo problemas con su cuerpo ni su sexo me dice que es una niña. Cuando comencé a leer “la carta” pensé que anunciaba su homosexualidad, que iba a ser liberador, que
era un signo de crecimiento, que íbamos a poder hablar de eso y que quizás tuvo relación con la depresión profunda que estaba sintiendo. No fue eso lo que leí. Leí lo inesperado, lo que no tenía sentido: Dediqué años a cuidar de su infancia y leer sus sentimientos, sus
necesidades. Esa niña nunca apareció. Como sociedad, vivíamos la resaca de los abusos sexuales infantiles, que nos enseñó que hay que creer a los niños, veníamos de reconocer que la homosexualidad nunca debió ser cuestionada o satanizada. Mi progresismo e identificación histórica
L'AMQG est 1 des 23 signataires de 13 pays d'une lettre ouverte à @EuropeanPATH.
@EuropeanPATH Avec @genspect (int'l) @Transgendertrd (UK) @OurDutyGrp (UK, D, AUS, USA) @GD_Alliance (CA) @GDSNsupport (EU) @post_trans (BE, DE) @CanalCorpoCerto (BR) @IKirjo (FIN) @BayswaterSG @anna_TTSB_GER (DE) GENID (Norway, Sweden)
Parents of ROGD kids (DE, UK, USA), La petite sirène (FR), Canadian Gender Report, Thoughtful Therapists (UK)
It was three years ago that @LisaLittman1 published her seminal work on adolescent onset gender dysphoria, a new phenomena not previously described in the scientific literature. In honor of her work, @genspect has declared August 16 to be #RogdAwarenessDay
A thread for #RogdAwarenessDay:
1. Three years ago today, August 16, 2018, a scientific journal published Lisa Littman’s study of 256 parental reports of adolescents experiencing a phenomenon described by Littman as 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
1. Three years ago today, August 16, 2018, a scientific journal published Lisa Littman’s study of 256 parental reports of adolescents experiencing a phenomenon described by Littman as 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
2.Littman coined the term ROGD to describe the phenomenon of adolescents who having previously had no feelings of gender dysphoria suddenly felt extremely dysphoric and wished to transition.
3.Littman noted that ROGD could perhaps be a maladaptive social coping mechanism for other challenges, and often came about after extensive time spent online. Social contagion also seemed to be a factor
