Ah! Thanks! I’ve heard that, just never seen it as an acronym. So yeah… pure bullshit.
I hate these people. Just awful humans.
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It’s a false diagnosis perpetrated by terfs - Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria that has been completely refuted. The paper postulating it had to be withdrawn.
Basically- trans kids aren’t really trans. It’s all peer pressure.
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Yeah, proud liberals until something effects them personally, then they go full fash.
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Thanks! In other words, an ideology attempting to undermine the reality of the lives of trans folks.
As always, thanks for sharing your knowledge, both of you!
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Right back at you. Prof!!!
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Wait, does that then mean she has a trans kid but is making a big deal of being a TERF anyway? Geez, that’s heartbreaking. I guess truth in advertising with the cancer symbol. 
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That’s what I inferred from her twitter bio and she wouldn’t be the first. It’s truly heartbreaking – being trans is hard enough, I can’t imagine adding a genocidal parent to that.
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Yes it does. That’s horrifying.
One of our friends we haven’t seen in a while just lost her son. 
It’s hitting me hard; any parent who ostracizes their kid just for being their real self is…well, I just shouldn’t say.
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Sadly, there are probably not too few trans babies dealing with that.
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Sadly TERFs target confused parents of trans kids, fill their heads with bs, suddenly, “their kids not trans, it’s just a social contagion”, trans people shouldn’t have rights and maybe fascism isn’t so bad.
Fucking assholes could just try accepting their kid instead.
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I’m lucky to have supportive parents, but I know the fear of rejection. I don’t know if I would have been strong enough to handle it.
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Yeah, sadly, that’s a major problem in our society, with the authoritarian style of parenting still popular among some parts of our society. It hits trans kids hardest, but it is a general problem for other kids, too. It breaks my heart… just love your babbies, cause they are going to be who they are going to be…
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ROGD basically theorizes that kids suddenly become trans because they asked parents of trans kids on anti-trans parenting sites for their experiences while formulating the theory. The kind of parents that trans kids know won’t accept them. Never mind that the kids had been dealing with dysphoria for ages before feeling like they needed to come out to their transphobic parents. It’s total bullshit, but is an easy sell to exactly that kind of parent so it’s gained a lot of traction among TERs while being thoroughly discredited by research that actually talks to the kids.
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also thanks!
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Shit. I feel terrible for her kid. To have your mom reject you out of hand based on repeatedly debunked ROGD bullshit must be heartbreaking.
(Wish i could)
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Because being trans makes life so much easier! It really is amazing how you can tailor your results by not talking to any trans folks, nor experts in the field, but by recruiting parents from anti-trans websites. Yeah, that won’t bias your results any.
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I’m shocked that kids don’t tell their non accepting parents about being trans.
Highlights
- We compare trans youth’s evolving experience of gender realization, affirmation, and transition with that of their parents.
- Parents’ experiences often do not reflect the realities of their trans child.
- There is a temporal gap between parents and their child in the acceptance journey.
- The synchronizing of parent and youth’s narratives and experiences brings deeper family connection.
- The parental report only does not provide sufficiently complete information to understand their child’s experience.
Also - the kids with accepting parents do better. The kids abandoned by their parents because of their bigotry are harmed.
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That makes sense. Even if the kids still have hostility from the larger community, having a loving home with supportive parents can really make all the difference. But I think that if one’s parents reject their kids, it makes things that much harder.
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Yep.
Trevor Project:
Homelessness and housing instability were reported at higher rates among transgender and nonbinary youth, including 38% of transgender girls/women, 39% of transgender boys/men, and 35% of nonbinary youth
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