The average 85% desistance rate of childhood gender dysphoria is a hard truth for the gender clinicians to accept. I’ve linked to a paper and have screen shots of the relevant text showing this fact. >>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/09540261.2015.1115754?scroll=top&needAccess=true …
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Historically, the majority of even very dysphoric kids grew out of it; many (not all) grew to be lesbian or gay adults who made peace with their bodies.
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It's not just with their bodies, but with the mythology they have about their bodies. I've noted a theme in detransitioning girls who say they felt a lot of fear of men, & have wondered if our whole "rape culture" stories contribute to the ROGD phenomenon. If so, the metoo ...
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That doesn't address the definitions though? The change occurred in 2013 so studies of the past that didn't explicitly find kids who desired to be the other sex couldn't be reputable, no?
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Even if that's true, gender therapists reported at HBIGDA conferences, through the emergence of WPATH, that among patients, 90% realized they weren't transsexual / transgender. Regardless of definition, "desistance" has been pretty steady and rather large.
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