Activists claim that ROGD is not a real thing yet some parents insist that ROGD perfectly describes something that they’re seeing in their teenagers. We explore this new phenomenon of adolescent-onset gender questioning, how it arises and how it impacts families. We also discuss our experience working with these adolescents and some of the common patterns of behaviour and other challenges they face. Socially mediated mental health phenomena from different generations and other parts of the world shed light on this controversial issue.

Links:

Lisa Marchiano: On Transgender Teens and Psychic Epidemics https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00332925.2017.1350804
Lisa Littman: Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330

The impact of social contagion – “Fijian girls succumb to Western dysmorphia”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/03/fijian-girls-succumb-to-western-dysmorphia/

Symptom pool Edward shorter: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/psychiatry-and-its-discontents-7ee5f263eb4c

Japanese study PCOS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17166864/

Erikson's Psychosocial Development https://courses.lumenlearning.com/teachereducationx92x1/chapter/eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development/

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