There is no such thing as Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

The term comes from Lisa Littman an assistant professor at Brown University School of Public Health, she believed that there was something that was causing young girls to suddenly come out and say they were boys and want to take testosterone and live as men. Her sample size for a study on trans issues can’t be criticised as it included 256 people, which for an academic study is a large number

Though that is where any credit to her ends, her research was a questionnaire made up of 90 questions which when latter peer-reviewed were considered to have varying degrees of bias in them. But instead of talking to that many young trans people, she decided to talk to their parents only and ask for their views on the subject.

Now if she had asked the children about their experiences and how they felt the article would have been vastly different. But asking the parents then you are going to get a whole alternative view of the situation.

For trans children then normally know they are different from about the ages of 3–5 when they start to for their self and learn who they are, but they also realise at that time that there is something wrong with them that needs to be addressed.

Then as they go through school they are generally the different kid, the one who spends a lot of time on their…