Evan Urquhart

There's also an interesting (to me) side question about cultural framing. If a 14 yo experiments with a new haircut & new peer group for a few months, then moves on, I call that "normal adolescence" while others might consider it anecdotal evidence for a new medical condition.

That summary of our summaries is close enough for me, cheers! I think what you described is normal adolescence, but it doesn't sound ROGD. Is being T just a haircut?

It's not, of course. But, I think some parents are panicking about normal identity exploration that goes on at that age, and they're being lumped together with parents whose kids are trans but desperately wish the kid wasn't.

If that turns out to be the case, than ROGD is a false explanation. Did... Did we just break out of the Twitter dumpster fire rubric?

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.