Thread by @genspect

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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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

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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Littman noted that #ROGD could be a maladaptive social coping mechanism for other disorders

@Jude90293402 talks about how clinicians overlooked the severe mental health issues of her ROGD teen in this Youtube clip

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This Youtube clip has @stellaomalley3 describing the common traits of the #ROGD teen

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The #ROGD hypothesis explains the extraordinary change in the cohort. Nobody else has been able to come up with another explanation.

Dr Dave Bell describes what happened in GIDS at the Tavistock in this Youtube clip

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Although activists subscribe to gender identity theory, many people hold a developmental understanding of gender dysphoria.

In this Youtube clip Dr Littman describes why the developmental model is considered controversial

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A new word for us: customership!

This Youtube clip presents Dr Dave Bell, ex-governor of the Tavistock, talking about “the collapse of gender medicine into customership”.

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Thousands of @Genspect parents are concerned about #ROGD.

In this Youtube clip @Jude90293402 talks about how clinicians gave her the false choice between “a live son and a dead daughter”

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Thanks so much to @GCFightBack our valued team member at @genspect for her tremendous work in compiling all these videos.

Please use #ROGD or #ROGDAwarenessDay today & muchas gracias for any retweets, comments or likes 10/10