Unraveling the Myth of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

Anti-Trans radical activists want you to believe that Rapid Onset gender Dysphoria ( ROGD ) is a legitimate condition. It isn’t.

The term, created by Lisa Littman, an Assistant Professor at Brown University School of Public health, was introduced in 2016 and posted on multiple websites in an effort to recruit parents for her survey. Inevitably, anti-transgender antagonists immediately hinged their activism to it in the hopes it was the “Science” they’d been waiting for that would invalidate transgender identities.

The culmination of Littman’s research was published in PLOS One, a peer reviewed science journal, in August of 2018 and detailed the plight of parents who said they had witnessed their teenage children suddenly demonstrate symptoms congruent with gender dysphoria and deciding to “self-identify as transgender simultaneously with other children in their peer group.” The original paper was so rife with bias and skewered approaches to the study that it resulted in the journal retracting it entirely before republishing with a lengthy, contextual disclaimer as Scientists worldwide debunked Littman’s conspiratorial theory.

Littman proposed that the gender dysphoria demonstrated in the teenagers of the parents surveyed was more similar to a social contagion than an actual condition, further presuming…