This year ROGD Week runs from 20-26 July
What is ROGD? Find out about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria here.
#ROGDWeek2020 is an opportunity to raise the profile of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) on social media. It is now two years since Lisa Littman published her paper exploring the phenomenon of post-pubertal gender transition in young people and called for more research. Two years on, that research is still missing. The massive increase in numbers of adolescents seeking gender transition is clearly a separate cohort for whom there is no evidence-based treatment pathway. We need this research; we need the evidence. Until there is sound science, the current ‘Gender Affirmative Model of Treatment’ (GAMT) is an unethical medical experiment is being conducted on young people.
Throughout this week we can:
- Raise awareness of the phenomenon called ROGD
- Promote the safeguarding of vulnerable young people.
- Calls for more research into adolescent gender dysphoria
- Highlight lack of evidence
- Champion good therapy (oppose attempts to label such care as ‘conversion therapy)
- Highlight failures of the Gender Affirming Model of Treatment
- Highlight conflicts of interest and false statements from WPATH, and others who promote medical transition for this cohort.
Use the hashtag ROGDWeek2020 when commenting on social media
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Read more about our Safeguarding Initiative here.
