In other words, take your 'social contagion' claims and shove them ... well, you get the memo.
that indicated adolescents may experience “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” [ROGD] as a result of “social contagion.”
As one might imagine, this gross misinterpretation of gender identity origin or discovery caused enough pushback that the PLOS One authors eventually issued a statement to note that “rapid-onset gender dysphoria [ROGD] is not a formal mental health diagnosis at this time.” It’s also worth noting that for the study the authors did not question transgender or gender-diverse youth or clinicians, but instead gathered data through online parental surveys.
“The hypothesis that transgender and gender-diverse youth assigned female at birth identify as transgender due to social contagion does not hold up to scrutiny and should not be used to argue against the provision of gender-affirming medical care for adolescents,” said the Pediatrics study senior author Dr.
Using a national sample of transgender youth across 16 states in 2017 and 2019, the study authors reported there were more assigned male sex at birth than assigned female sex at birth. “Additionally, the total percentage of [transgender] adolescents in our sample decreased from 2.4 percent in 2017 to 1.6 percent in 2019.
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