The sudden explosion in children who proclaim themselves to be members of the opposite sex is the result of LGBT grooming and social contagion. There is a scientific term for it: rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). Career- and grant-minded researchers are advised not study the subject. Those who undermine the transitioning of children into grotesque facsimiles of the opposite sex are canceled. Just ask Northwestern University psychology professor Michael Bailey, whose article on the topic was retracted to placate LGBT activists.

Professor Bailey provides the background:

ROGD was first described in the literature in 2018 by the physician and researcher Lisa Littman. It is an explanation of the new phenomenon of adolescents, largely girls, with no history of gender dysphoria, suddenly declaring they want to transition to the opposite sex.

Littman has since been canceled by Brown University for publishing findings that impede the LGBT agenda.

The theory behind ROGD is that through social contagion from friends, social media, and even school, vulnerable girls are exposed to the idea that their normal adolescent angst is the result of an underlying transgender identity. These girls then suddenly declare that they are transgender. That is the rapid onset. After the declaration, the girls may desire—and receive—drastic medical interventions including mastectomies and testosterone injections.

That is clearly a bad idea, because the gender dysphoria is likely to be transient, whereas the consequences of “treating” it with drugs and surgery are permanent. From the point of view of the progressives pushing the LGBT agenda, this bad idea is the whole idea.

There has been a 10-fold increase in referrals of adolescent girls for gender dysphoria in the UK in the past decade. Hardly any real research has been published on the topic. So Bailey and coauthor Suzanna Diaz waded in:

Our article was based on parent reports of 1,655 adolescent and young adult children. Three-fourths of them were female. Emotional problems were common among this group, especially anxiety and depression, which many parents said preceded gender issues by years. Most of these young people had taken steps to socially transition, including changing their pronouns, dress, and identity to the other sex (or in some cases, to neither sex). Parents observed that after their children socially transitioned, their mental health deteriorated.

Surprise, surprise.

Some of the kids had already been subjected to medical transition treatment when the study was conducted.

Disturbingly, those young people with more emotional problems were especially likely to have socially and medically transitioned.

Also highly unsurprising. This is not about God assigning the wrong gender at birth. It is about mental illness. Drugs and surgery are employed to lock kids into it for life.

Previously, mental health professionals took a “first, do no harm approach.” They wanted…

…to help youth avoid the psychosocial upheaval associated with gender transition and a lifetime of potentially unnecessary medical treatment.

This position — which was almost universal until recently — is now forbidden. Transmogrifying children into parodies of the opposite sex must be regarded as first-line treatment.

That’s how powerful “marginalized” LGBT militants are. That’s how willing the liberal establishment is to sacrifice children to them.

On a tip from Angel.

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