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.