Evan Urquhart

Hey, if this is a real phenomenon in the real world, I'm just saying that scientific research can probably find evidence of it. You're saying, take it on faith. But I believe in a material reality in which researchers amass evidence for medical conditions.

at no point did I say take it on faith. you are putting words in my mouth because you don't have a response to my claim that you're not familiar with how difficult it is to study this population

My response is, yes, making up lies is harder than doing research, but that if ROGD is massively common among dysphoric youth real researchers can (and should) find real evidence of it. You're hyperfocusing on the word "easily" and I'm not sure why.

who said ROGD is massively common? have you ever interviewed a kid who believes they had it?

A kid who believes they have what, exactly? There's no such condition.

a kid who thinks that they thought they were trans, for a time, because of social ifnluence rather than a deep-seated identity -- whatever you wanna call it

I've interviewed people who experimented with different modes of identity in adolescence. I've never interviewed someone who thinks the trans lobby tricked them into pretending to be transgender, but the world is large, I have heard of such people and don't deny their existence.

However, there's no evidence I'm aware of that their idiosyncratic way of telling the story of their adolescent identity experimentation is a medical diagnosis, or widespread, or what have you.