1. ROGD is used to refer to a new(ish) phenomenon: the surge in teen girls and less often late teen/young adult men who ‘suddenly’ identify as trans
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2. These kids are ‘rapid onset’ in the sense that they displayed no gender problems as kids. (Perfectly true that all new ideas are rapid, and that nothing will be done within 6 months)
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3. So to point out that GD definition requires the problem to have existed for 6 months is neither here nor there.
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4. Article claims that kids don’t receive medical/surgical interventions and that WPATH standards of care prevent this
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5. But 1) Trans activists (including Mermaids) press for earlier intervention on grounds of suicide prevention and frightened parents can access early intervention privately or abroad and
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5. 2) Social Transition, affirmation and puberty blockers are all proven to affect outcomes and to reduce desistance, setting kids on medical pathway
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6. So is Transgender Trend just another version of anti gay conservatism?
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7. Clearly NO, as ROGD overwhelmingly afflicts same sex attracted girls - lesbians - who will be turned by transition into heterosexuals
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8. The charge of gay conversion therapy is a better fit for those who rush kids into altering their bodies through gender identity ideology
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Kids deserve to grow up in their own bodies free to develop their own sexual identities
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And finally: it counts for little that GD is in the DSM. The history of the psychiatric profession is dire, littered with dubious and shameful diagnoses, including homosexuality
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