rapid-onset gender dysphoria

English

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Rapid onset gender dysphoria controversy

Alternative forms

rapid onset gender dysphoria

Etymology

Coined by Lisa Littman in July 2016. First appeared in a notice posted to a gender-critical blog and was later popularized by a 2018 paper by Littman.^[1]^[2]

Noun

rapid-onset gender dysphoria (uncountable)

(gender-critical feminism, pseudoscience) Controversial and scientifically unsupported subset of gender dysphoria claimed to be caused by social influence.
Synonym: (initialism) ROGD
- 2022 September 8, Nikolas Lanum, “New 'Tucker Carlson Originals' two-part special sees 'detransitioners' speak out against trans 'movement'”, in Fox News‎^[3]:
  Rapid onset gender dysphoria, by contrast, usually only relates to biological females, and is determined by a sudden acknowledgment they may be trans with little to no prior signals.

References

Southern Poverty Law Center‎^[4], 2024 August 22 (last accessed)

^ Jasmine Andersson (2020 June 12) “Rapid onset gender dysphoria: what we know about the term amid JK Rowling trans row”, in i news‎^[1]
^ Ben Kesslen (2022 August 18) “How the idea of a "transgender contagion" went viral—and caused untold harm”, in MIT Technology Review‎^[2]

[1] Jasmine Andersson (2020 June 12) “Rapid onset gender dysphoria: what we know about the term amid JK Rowling trans row”, in i news‎^[1]

[2] Ben Kesslen (2022 August 18) “How the idea of a "transgender contagion" went viral—and caused untold harm”, in MIT Technology Review‎^[2]

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