Evan Urquhart

I don't want to continue this over Twitter because I feel like my views are being misrepresented by Evan a lot. I've interviewed kids who in fact wanted to go on hormones, or did go on hormoens, as a result of social influence or other mental-health problems, not a deep-seated

identity that persists. You can call that whatever you want, and I understand ROGD is a loaded term. Whatever the thing is, it happens *sometimes*. The first paper written on it took about the approach you'd expect when investigating a brand-new concept. If the question is

The other thing Evan is doing is hsifting the goalpost so one second we're talking about the potential of a kid self-diagnosing themselves as trans via YouTube, the next we're talking about them... getting a haircut or changing their style? That's not what's at issue here.

I agree Jesse, and I think that was the undertone of our exchange. For me, the most compelling reason why ROGD should be studied was Susan Bradleys clinical experience of an influx of FtoM trans kids, about half with autism. https://youtu.be/bZJorJ_W1QA 

I was not aware "ROGD" is considered a loaded term - it certainly shouldn't be. Susan Bradley's clinical experience is not a scientific study, but its not NOTHING. The smart response is to consider ROGD a possibility and conduct more research, and we've already started that.

The thing about ROGD is that it didn't come out of clinicians observing gender nonconforming youth, or researchers working with those youth. It came from so-called "gender critical" forums, places where anti-trans activists discuss strategy.

The paper on ROGD asked parents in these pre-existing online anti-trans forums that created the term to tell their stories. The researcher, to my knowledge, had and has no other experience with trans or gender nonconforming youth.