Scientific American: Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims

[DBoon]

Last edited Mon Aug 28, 2023, 03:40 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermines-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-claims/

A recent study claiming to describe more than 1,600 possible cases of a “socially contagious syndrome” was retracted in June for failing to obtain ethics approval from an institutional review board. The survey examined “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” a proposed condition that attributes adolescent gender distress to exposure to transgender people through friends or social media. The existence of such a syndrome has been the subject of intense debate for the past several years and has fueled arguments against transgender rights reforms, despite being widely criticized by medical experts.

The American Psychological Association and 61 other health care providers’ organizations signed a letter in 2021 denouncing the validity of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) as a clinical diagnosis. And a steadily growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that it does not reflect transgender adolescents’ experiences and that “social contagion” is not causing more young people to seek gender-affirming care. Still, the concept continues to be used to justify anti-trans legislation across the U.S.

“To even say it’s a hypothesis at this point, based on the paucity of research on this, I think is a real stretch,” says Eli Coleman, former president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Coleman helped create the organization’s most recent standards of care for trans people, which endorse and explain the evidence for forms of gender-affirming care.

So will Florida now ban Scientific American from school libraries?

on edit: Wonderful quote from article, "It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” she says. “It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.”

[yankee87]

1. Seeing Trans people makes you confused?

This reminds me of when the law allowed people to say they were scared of gay people and let them murder gay people. More BS from the troglodytes that want our LGBTQIA citizens back in the closet.

Glad the medical community coming out against this bigotry.

[mopinko]

2. i've heard this schtick on xitter.

“just like goth” i was told.

[elias7]

3. Rapid onset parental discovery

[Shoeless Louis]

4. G.O.P. - Gradual Onset Psychosis- A political affliction relating to deterioration of the ability to

rhink critically. Symptoms include bigotry, self-absorption and a failure to mature emotionally.
Seemingly exacerbated by religious proclivities resulting in self-serving rationalization. Seemingly no cure, suggest isolation of the sufferer and assignation of their bank accounts.

[Lonestarblue]

7. Perfect definition of the GOP. They have gone off the deep end, and the prognosis for recovery

is poor.

[mountain grammy]

5. I knew this would be the issue that sends the wingers off the cliff..

It's very important to protect our friends in the LGBTQ community and remind our children to do the same. The extremists wil continue to make stuff up and undermind the truth just to attack and, we should always consider an attack on one group to be an attack on us all, because it it.

[erronis]

6. They'd love to ban Scientific American from schools. And Popular Science, National Geo,

Science, Journals of the American xyxyx Association, etc.
Esquire, New Yorker, New Republic

and, of course, put filters on their internet connections to ban Democratic Underground, Wikipedia, and thousands of other places where students can find information and competing viewpoints.