Evan Urquhart

Considering the fact that virtually ALL of the papers on GD since around 2000 have been of people who experienced dysphoria & chosen to transition with NO controls on those who did not, they contain the same bias that you're condemning in Littman.

This is exactly why I'm telling you that Littman did you a disservice. All (or almost all) studies are flawed. There are always new questions to ask, and new ways to approach the questions we already have. But Littman's methodological flaws were fatal.

You know, cat o, one of the reasons it's difficult to take ROGD seriously as a sub-population of people who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria is the obvious fact that people who believe in ROGD don't believe that any gender dysphoria is real.

Exactly. Her bias is apparent right away from the title. It's not "anti trans" to investigate the sudden spike and the near 180 degree reversal in male vs. female referrals.

The thing that really bugs me is that Evan's own writing suggests the influence of social contagion, & there's no real evidence of meeting even the old DSM-IV criteria unless you consider that occurring AFTER having become invested in transgenderist beliefs & "gender play."