We Can Describe It Better Then Her

You have heard it in the conservative media, how we all pf a sudden come out as trans and the right-wing media has given it the name “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” que the evil music.

Brown researcher first to describe rapid-onset gender dysphoria
MedicalXpress
By Mollie Rappe, Brown University
August 22, 2018

For individuals with gender dysphoria, the conflict between experienced gender identity and sex observed at birth produces significant emotional distress.

Until recently, it was unusual for a teen to report initial feelings of gender dysphoria during or after puberty without childhood symptoms. Clinicians have reported that this kind of gender dysphoria is on the rise, particularly for patients whose sex was observed to be female at birth. Additionally, the numbers of adolescents seeking care for gender dysphoria has increased dramatically. It is unknown why these changes are occurring.

This month, a Brown University researcher published the first study to empirically describe teens and young adults who did not have symptoms of gender dysphoria during childhood but who were observed by their parents to rapidly develop gender dysphoria symptoms over days, weeks or months during or after puberty.

"This kind of descriptive study is important because it defines a group and raises questions for more research," said study author Lisa Littman, an assistant professor of the practice of behavioral and social sciences at Brown's School of Public Health. "One of the main conclusions is that more research needs to be done. Descriptive studies aren't randomized controlled trials—you can't tell cause and effect, and you can't tell prevalence. It's going to take more studies to bring in more information, but this is a start."
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In the 90-question survey, Littman asked the parents about each of the eight indicators for gender dysphoria in childhood that are detailed by the American Psychiatric Association. To meet the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood, a child needs to experience at least six of the eight indicators. Most include readily observable signs, such as a strong rejection of typically feminine or masculine toys and games, and strong resistance to wearing typically feminine or masculine clothes. Eighty percent of the parents reported observing none of these indicators in their children before puberty.

Oh my oh my they hid their cross gender feelings… surprise, surprise! I did that also and I got better and better hiding when I leaned that you were harassed if you showed any feminine traits, but that didn’t keep me out of my mother’s closet.

The pattern of clusters of teens in friend groups becoming transgender-identified, the group dynamics of these friend groups and the types of advice viewed online led her to the hypothesis that friends and online sources could spread certain beliefs. Examples include the belief that non-specific symptoms such as feeling uncomfortable in their own skins or feeling like they don't fit in— which could be a part of normal puberty or associated with trauma—should be perceived as gender dysphoria; the belief that the only path to happiness is transition; and the belief that anyone who disagrees with the teen is transphobic and should be cut out of their life.

Oh it must be contagious!

Or maybe they just learned what they were feeling inside was and seeing that it is possible to have a meaningful life if you’re trans.

For me I never thought it was possible to be an out trans women, I thought that the world would end if anyone found out I was trans.

Additionally, 62 percent of parents reported their teen or young adult had one or more diagnoses of a psychiatric disorder or neurodevelopmental disability before the onset of gender dysphoria. Forty-eight percent reported that their child had experienced a traumatic or stressful event prior to the onset of their gender dysphoria, including being bullied, sexually assaulted or having their parents get divorced.

Well yea, being bullied, and harassed make you want to hide your gender dysphoria and living a lie does take a lot out of you. For me that stress manifested itself in panic attacks which disappeared once I transitioned.