#rogd

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Leor Sapir and Colin Wright

Published: Jun 9, 2023

A federal court on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Florida law that prohibits the administration of sex-change procedures on children under 18. The opinion, by Judge Robert L. Hinkle, leans heavily on medical and scientific rationales to argue that it is unconstitutional to ban the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery on teenagers who feel alienated from their bodies.

Twenty states maintain age restrictions on sex-change procedures, and the problem they face is explaining to judges that American medical associations aren’t following the best available evidence. This is known to European health authorities and has been reported in such prestigious publications as the British Medical Journal. But American judges need some way to evaluate conflicting scientific authorities—especially as institutions responsible for ensuring that medical professionals have access to high-quality research aren’t functioning as they should.

A case in point: Springer, an academic publishing giant, has decided to retract an article that appeared last month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. The retraction is expected to take effect June 12.

The article’s authors are listed as Michael Bailey and Suzanna Diaz. Mr. Bailey is a well-respected scientist, with dozens of publications to his name. The other author writes under a pseudonym to protect the privacy of her daughter, who suffers from gender dysphoria.

Their new paper is based on survey responses from more than 1,600 parents who reported that their children, who were previously comfortable in their bodies, suddenly declared a transgender identity after extensive exposure to social media and peer influence. Mr. Bailey’s and Ms. Diaz’s sin was to analyze rapid onset gender dysphoria, or ROGD. Gender activists hate any suggestion that transgender identities are anything but innate and immutable. Even mentioning the possibility that trans identity is socially influenced or a phase threatens their claims that children can know early in life they have a permanent transgender identity and therefore that they should have broad access to permanent body-modifying and sterilizing procedures.

Within days of publication, a group of activists wrote a public letter condemning the article and calling for the termination of the journal’s editor. Among the letter’s signatories is Marci Bowers, a prominent genital surgeon and president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, an advocacy organization that promotes sex changes for minors.

Nearly 2,000 researchers and academics signed a counter letter in support of the article. Springer nonetheless decided to retract the paper without disciplining its editor. Springer initially asserted that the study needed approval from an institutional review board. But it quickly abandoned that rationale, which was false.

The publisher now maintains that the retraction is due to improper participant consent. While the respondents consented to the publication of the survey’s results, Springer insists they didn’t specifically agree to publication in a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal. That’s a strange and retrospective requirement, especially considering that Springer and other major publishers have published thousands of survey papers without this type of consent.

Anyone familiar with the controversy over transgender medicine knows what is going on. Activists put pressure on Springer to retract an article with conclusions they didn’t like, and Springer caved in. We’ve become accustomed to seeing these capitulations in academia, media and the corporate world, but it is especially disturbing to see in a respected medical journal.

Rather than appreciate the long-term risk to itself and the scientific community from doing the bidding of activists, Springer has instead agreed to evaluate and retract all survey papers that lack the newly required consent. If Springer follows through on its promise, hundreds of authors who chose to publish in Springer’s journals may have their research retracted.

The publications that support what they call “gender-affirming care” rely heavily on surveys. The U.S. Transgender Survey of 2015, for instance, has generated several influential papers. As it happens, the USTS didn’t inform participants that their answers would be published in peer-reviewed journals.

This kind of double standard runs through gender-medicine research. Papers advocating “gender transition” are readily accepted by leading scientific journals despite having grave methodological flaws and biases. Work that questions gender-transition orthodoxy stands almost no chance of being published in the best-known journals. Every now and then, an errant research paper slips past the censors, but should it prove significant enough to threaten the settled science narrative, retribution is swift and merciless. The researcher Lisa Littman learned this lesson in 2018, when she was widely attacked after publishing on the topic. Mr. Bailey and Ms. Diaz are learning it now.

The idea is to manufacture the appearance of scientific consensus where there is none. The pseudo-consensus then allows such American medical associations as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society to recommend body-altering procedures for children.

While many Americans have heard news about the wave of states passing legislation that curbs sex changes for the young, few realize that an equally fierce, and arguably far more important, battle is raging: the battle for the integrity of the scientific process. It is a fight for the ability to have censorship-free scientific debate as a means to advance human knowledge.

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Here's the thing: even if it's wrong, you refute it by making a better scientific case, with better evidence. You show where the flaws are. You don't throw a hissy-fit and cry until it goes away.

#Leor Sapir #Colin Wright #medical corruption #academic corruption #ROGD #rapid onset gender dysphoria #social contagion #gender ideology #genderwang #queer theory #religion is a mental illness

[gwydionmisha]

#Junk Science #Lisa Littman #ROGD #Detransition #News #Pseudoscience #Trans

[detransition]

Am i still detrans if i never underwent hrt or surgery in the first place?

some people do use detransitioned/detrans as an "umbrella" term for anyone who identified as trans and then stopped, regardless of HRT, surgery, etc.

however, speaking as an individual, i believe that specific terms are needed for specific experiences. it's a specific experience to be someone who stops identifying after medical intervention or before. detrans people deserve to have specific, common-sense based language to talk about shared experiences, and those that aren't shared. desisters (which i use here as its the most common term right now) also deserve specific, common-sense based language to talk about their experiences. grouping things together under an umbrella for convenience may save time, but clear communication is often worth a few more words or new terminology.

some terms that people who have stopped identifying as trans without medical interventions are:

desisted/desister - this term came into usage when the theory of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) was developed reidentified/reidentifier/re-id - more popular in gender critical/radical feminist circles

reconciled/reconciler - an alternative to re-identified that shifts away from "identity" and instead reconciling with your sex. a lesbian/radical feminist term.

right now, it seems like desisted is the most popular term due to its usage in gender critical community & ROGD terminology.

i have occasionally used the term d/d (for detrans/desisted) in personal writing to refer to all detrans & desisted people together.

#actually detrans #actuallydetrans #detrans #detransition #1st #ROGD #desisted #mod post

[crossdreamers]

Debunking Myths about Transgender People

Pink News is debunking some common myths about trans people.

Article here.

#transgender #trans #lgbt #lgbtqa #queer #nonbinary #rogd #transphobia #health

[leo-fie]

List of stuff that's not only bad science in the sense that someone did some bad science, but in the sense that some asshole just made shit up:

Vaccines cause autism

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

Everything Sigmund Freud ever did

Neoliberalism

Autogynophilia

#autism #bad science #science #rogd #rapid onset gender dysphoria #psychoanalysis #vaccine #conspriacy theories #neoliberalism #autogynephilia

[ex-foster]

https://nationalpost.com/health/trangender-girls-social-contagion

#gender critical #Rogd #rapid onset gender dysphoria #Gender distressed minors #Social contagion #Gender clinics #Social media #Gender research #mental health #Gender dysphoric girls #Surge of trans identities among teenage girls #Female adolescents

[charliejaneanders]

This is some Scooby Doo villain business right here.

#transphobia #rogd #propaganda #trans #transgender #holy crap wtf

[nightfallsystem]

since "rapid onset gender dysphoria" exists, (that totally hasnt been disproven at all/s) we should also make "rapid onset left handedness"

its totally just a fad made by the left handed "cult" made to make OUR KIDS become left handed. its totally not that left handedness wasn't accepted much until kinda lately/s. which is totally not like the rates of people identifying as trans, its totally not related to the social acceptance of transgender people guys. its totally not./s

( also, psst,, check this out --> https://neurosciencenews.com/gender-dysphoria-myth-19878/ )

#ROGD #rapid onset gender dysphoria #trans #transgender #trans rights #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+

[antiterf]

Littman (author of the original Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria study) made another publication to argue that her methods are justified and I'm just going to write down random thoughts as I read through it and the original study again because... damn who's publishing these

“They are constantly putting down straight, white people for being privileged, dumb and boring." Said probably by a straight, privileged white person that's currently acting dumb.

"the development of the survey instrument was conducted with the feedback from four members of the target population for content and clarity" - so not even a psychologist went over this survey. Makes sense since it's treating gender dysphoria as meaning "identifies as transgender" yet doesn't. "My child didn't show signs of being gender dysphoric until they came out as transgender!" lucky for your teenager, they need 2 out of 6 symptoms with significant distress to fall under gender dysphoria. 5/6 can be kept secret as they are personal wants and feelings.

"Convenience samples are used all the time in research," yeah, but going to three websites that have obvious beliefs on the matter and all coming to the website for the same reason is a lot different than general social media. You could've looked for parents of trans people for your targeted population, but nooo, let's only get our samples from the same people who made the concept, your scale, with all having similar beliefs. That's just a convenience sample. God.

Ah, you're comparing your sampling to researchers looking for trans people in general. Like we all have the same belief system (not biased, guys, no prejudice here!)

"coming out" is frequently in quotes along with "cisgender" but not terms like straight or gay. Hinting that maybe this researcher is again, a bit biased. Just maybe.

"Parental report has been justified as a good method for monitoring child mental and physical health" Yeah it's too bad that you're asking questions like "what do their friends talk about" and other things about teenagers and some adults (oh look you sourced something where the age group was 0-17) where the parents are reportedly having trouble getting along with them (57%).

What kind of content someone looks at on the internet is not a good time to get parental reports.

"The issue with parental report is that it can carry biases" NO?! REALLY?!/s "I acknowledged this," but you still didn't act like there was bias in any of your examinations of the data. You can't go, "I acknowledge that this person has a bloody knife," before proceeding to ignore the bloody knife while making a threat analysis, and hell, why not get them another knife!

"More than a third (33.7%) of the AYAs asked for medical and/or surgical transition at the same time that they announced they were transgender-identified." Ah yes, .4% more than a third, to be exact.

Damn, there are barely any significant correlations in this - oh look, most of the tested ones for significance are about the relationship with their parents. There is not a single one about peer interactions or online use. The only reported for significance was "stopped hanging out with non transgender friends," and that didn't have significance.

#long post #rogd #notaterftip #not sarcasm

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Bernard Lane

Published: Dec 5, 2023

On the up

A study of young people who on average spent almost five years identifying as transgender has found they experienced better wellbeing and less gender dysphoria after they detransitioned from medical treatment or desisted in their opposite-sex identity.

“Detransition and desistance [giving up a trans identity before any medical treatment] were associated with marked improvements in psychological functioning,” says a new article published by the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior and authored by public health researcher Dr Lisa Littman, psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, detransitioner Helena Kerschner and sexologist Professor J Michael Bailey.

“On several relevant measures—gender dysphoria, flourishing, and self-harm—participants indicated great improvement after they stopped identifying as transgender,” the paper says.

[ Chart: Flourishing, or general wellbeing, rated by detransitioners, with the vertical access showing the number of participants for a given flourishing score, 10 being the highest wellbeing ]

Settling back into birth sex

Among the study group of 71 American females and seven males, aged 18-33, the overwhelming majority said they felt most “authentic” after they detransitioned or desisted.

External pressures—such as anti-trans discrimination, family resistance or religion—were rated as the least important drivers of detransition and desistance.

“The factors most important to relinquishing a transgender identification were internal factors, such as participants’ own thought processes, changes in participants’ personal definitions of male and female, and becoming more comfortable identifying as their natal sex,” the paper says.

Another reported impetus was the feeling that the causes of their gender dysphoria were more complex than they had believed. Looking back, the young people said a key influence in becoming trans was mistaking mental health problems or trauma as gender dysphoria.

“Against official advice I met [in 2021] a young lady called Keira Bell. She was a lesbian who told me the horrific experience that she had at the Tavistock [gender] clinic. It was an eye-opening experience [for me]. I know that [another MP] talked about ‘transing away the gay’ in his speech… We are seeing, I would say, almost an epidemic of young gay children being told that they are trans and being put on the medical pathway for irreversible decisions and they are regretting it… I am making sure that [in future] young people do not find themselves sterilised because they are being exploited by people who do not understand what these issues are…”—speech in the UK parliament, Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, 7 December 2023

Suddenly syndrome

Analysis of survey responses suggested that at most, 17 per cent of the group would have met the diagnostic requirements for the classic form of gender dysphoria with onset in early childhood.

Just over half the group (41/78) said they recognised themselves in the new, much more common form known as rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) with its onset during or after puberty.

Although a hypothesis rather than a formal diagnosis, ROGD seems to describe the post-2010 international explosion in socially influenced clusters of teenagers, chiefly girls, suddenly embracing trans or non-binary identities.

The study by Littman et al found that young people in the group who reported less gender dysphoria in childhood were more likely to say that the term ROGD did apply to their experience.

“The purpose of this research is to learn about the experiences of desisters and detransitioners—specifically, to explore: 1) factors that may or may not be related to the development of and desistance from transgender identification; 2) whether or not individuals experienced changes in their sexual orientation during and after transgender identification; and 3) what kinds of counseling and informed consent were received by those who sought medical care to transition.”—flyer used to recruit participants for the Littman et al study

Inconvenient for gender experts

The authors say their findings are “necessarily tentative” and acknowledge several limitations in the research, which involved a convenience sample of young people being asked to recall their experience before, during and after gender transition.

The study cannot show how common detransition is, nor establish whether these particular young people happened to be bad risks for transition, nor elucidate whether better psychological health is a cause or an outcome of detransition.

Detransition and desistance are understudied and contentious topics. ROGD has awkward implications for the “gender-affirming” treatment approach with its dogma of young people as “experts in their gender identity”.

Activists highlight the paucity of research on ROGD—first described in 2018 by Dr Littman—while seeking to sabotage any more studies and pressuring journals to retract papers exploring this phenomenon.

The Littman et al study just published had to adopt videoconference screening to check that would-be participants were genuine; activists had boasted on social media about taking the online survey and giving fake responses.

“When little is known [about detransition and desistance], imperfect research is often better than no research,” Dr Littman and her colleagues say in their paper. “It can provide provisional answers, better-informed hypotheses, and ideas for future research.”

“Despite the absence of any questions about this topic in the survey, nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of the participants expressed the ‘internalized homophobia and difficulty accepting oneself as lesbian, gay, or bisexual’ narrative by spontaneously describing that these experiences were instrumental to their gender dysphoria, their desire to transition, and their detransition.”—A survey of 100 detransitioners, Dr Lisa Littman, September 2021. (Dr Littman believes there would be little if any overlap in participants between this 2021 group and those surveyed in the current 2023 study.)

[ Video: Corinna Cohn, who transitioned three decades ago when safeguards were stronger, testifies in support of a bill restricting paediatric transition in the American state of Ohio ]

Yes, they were trans

In the 2023 Littman et al study, all the males and most of the females had taken cross-sex hormones, almost a third of the females had undergone mastectomy and a small number had their uterus or ovaries removed. (Only two participants had taken puberty blockers, which Dr Littman attributes to the average age of trans identification being too old at 17 years.)

“Our participants invested a great deal of their lives in their gender transitions—in terms of time, disruption, and serious social and medical steps. Thus, we do not believe that a principled case can be made that participants detransitioned because they were never gender dysphoric,” the Littman et al paper says.

The researchers say that follow-up studies of gender dysphoric youth are “urgently needed”, and that gender clinics have “a particular obligation” to keep track of past patients—“Unfortunately, in North America at least, we see little evidence that this presently occurs.”

“Detransition has become much more visible in recent years. However, it was only recently that the rates of detransition began to be quantified. According to recent UK and US data, 10–30 per cent of recently transitioned individuals detransition a few years after they initiated transition.”—Current concerns about gender-affirming therapy in adolescents, Professor Stephen B Levine and E Abbruzzese, April 2023

Some other key points of the 2023 Littman et al paper—

Only 27 per cent of the young people had told their former gender clinicians they had detransitioned. Most of those who took cross-sex hormones obtained them through the fast-track “informed consent” model. Two-thirds of the group felt they had not been adequately informed about the risks of medical transition. Fewer than one in ten had been told about the lack of long-term outcome studies for females with adolescent-onset dysphoria. Important influences for females becoming trans men included wanting to avoid mistreatment and sexualisation as women. Almost half the females indicated they were exclusively attracted to women. ROGD may be chiefly a female condition, with the possibility that some males taken to be ROGD may actually be manifesting hitherto-suppressed autogynephilia (sexual arousal among males who cross-dress and/or imagine themselves as women). More than a third of the group said most of their offline and online friends became trans-identified and it was common to mock people who were not trans. Among counter-intuitive results, acknowledgment of the ROGD label by participants was not significantly related to the age at which they took on a trans identity. Psychiatric diagnoses before transition were common, including depression (63 per cent); anxiety (60 per cent); attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (24 per cent); eating disorder (23 per cent); obsessive compulsive disorder (18 per cent) post-traumatic stress disorder (15 per cent); bipolar disorder (12 per cent); hair pulling (10 per cent); and autism spectrum disorder (9 per cent). Young people in the study showed relatively high scores on a trauma measure of “adverse childhood experiences” such as abuse inflicted within the family. The participants had generally liberal politics and a clear majority supported gay marriage (67/78) and trans rights 71/78).

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Coming to terms with the nature of your body, rather than chasing a fantasy and delusion, leads to better mental health. Imagine that.

#Bernard Lane #detrans #detransitioners #gender ideology #queer theory #ROGD #rapid onset gender dysphoria #medical transition #medical malpractice #medical corruption #medical scandal #mental health #religion is a mental illness #Youtube

[lizardho]

It’s a very important, closely guarded secret in the transgender community that ROGD is real but you only get it by playing D&D with us.

#rogd #transgender #tgirl swag #dnd #rogd is actually fake tho

[pete-darby]

Watch "Breaking Down Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" on YouTube

In which lovely, positive Jamie gets his PhD out to take down bad research

#rogd #transgender #Research #jammidodger #science #Youtube

[crossdreamers]

 A new look at “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" (ROGD), a transphobic pseudo-science

"While the ROGD theories claim that these people are 'becoming' trans, the truth is that we were always here."

Two papers pretending to prove that trans youth becomes trans because of social contagion have been redacted.

The first one, by Lisa Littman, asked parents visiting transphobic sites about the gender variance of kids, while the second, mentioned by Faefyx Collington in Into, was redacted this year due to lack consent from the participants.

Collington explains why ROGD is a pseudo-science:

The basic idea is that there are now more people being diagnosed with gender dysphoria and identifying as transgender and nonbinary because it is “cool” to do so... While there has certainly been a significant rise in people coming out as trans, nonbinary, gender-non-conforming, etc., there is also a much simpler explanation... The increase in our recognized population is centered around greater knowledge of trans identities and increased social acceptance, not some sort of “social contagion.” Ultimately, this comes down to the same sort of survivorship bias that we see with things such as autism. Something that was once misunderstood or shunned by society is now more likely to be accepted and understood, and thus seems to be more common. We also see this with the seeming increase in the number of lefthanded people from around 1910 to 1950. People weren’t suddenly becoming lefthanded; the idea of being lefthanded was simply no longer as likely to be demonized and people were less likely to try and beat or train it out of children.

Read the whole article here: Your favorite anti-trans pseudoscience is back but now it’s just sad

Photo: itchySan

#transgender #trans #lgbt #queer #nonbinary #genderqueer #rapid onset gender dysphoria #rogd #transphobia #science

[astrangerthatlovesyou]

TW: Transphobia

If you see a news article claiming that a “new study is proving that transgenderism is socially contagious among teen girls.” I’ll save you the vitriol filled article. It’s not new, it’s not even a valid study. It’s just the 2018 Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria “study.”

For those unfamiliar the ROGD paper was written by Dr. Lisa Littman and suggested that there was a modern phenomenon of teens becoming transgender due to social pressure.

Littman did not include a single transgender person or even teen in her “study.” Her entire sample was of parents of transgender children that she gathered from openly anti trans websites.

No accredited medical institution recognizes ROGD as a valid medical diagnosis or phenomenon. It has been widely renounced as “fake science.” Not only has no study that includes transgender individuals supported the claims Littman made, countless have directly contradicted them.

If you have to make up science to justify oppression, then oppression isn’t justified.

I love you all, stay safe. My DMs are open if you need a break from the transphobia.

Here’s some reading:

Littman’s Paper

#trans #queer #rogd #transphobia #transisbeautiful #trans rights #transfem #transmasc #nonbinary #TERFs dni #transgender #transgirl #trans boy #gender #gender queer #genderqueer #genderfluid #stay safe #and do some goddamn research ffs

[shaftking]

I’m doing the stream of consciousness thing again but yeah the rapid onset gender dysphoria thing was pretty fucking stupid. Ignoring that the evidence is extremely biased and not sound research even on the surface of the methods. Puberty is tough for basically everyone, even cis people and there are and were definitely a bunch of kids who I don’t doubt were experiencing some kind of discomfort over puberty but might or might not have been experiencing gender dysphoria. The whole idea of ROGD is still dumb though, when the whole issue seemed to be more that it was a bunch of middle/high schoolers being uncomfortable with their bodies (whether they were trans or not) seeing trans being very visible and explained nebulously as “being uncomfortable with your body” and being like “oh that’s me!” Which is like, completely blameless behavior. Kids and teens are wrong about a lot of stuff, including themselves as they grow and figure themselves out. It’s like the quintessential 15yo experience to think that there is something deeply and truly wrong with you when really you’re just 15. ROGD is a dumb diagnosis because it’s just describing kids at worst being adamant but mistaken about what’s going on with themselves in the phase of their life in which that is completely expected because it’s the time they are trying to figure themselves out while a whole lot in their lives is changing.

#personal #trans #rogd #rapid onset gender dysphoria

[trannyderangementsyndrome]

Least retarded and antifeminist ROGD parent

#rogd #gender critical