You're listening to gender, a wider lens.

I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.

And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.

Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens

and families impacted by gender dysphoria. I also work with gender questioning

teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and

individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the

concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens.

Hi Stella, how are you?

Hi, Sasha.

Good to see you again.

You too? So here we are episode two and we are going to be talking

about rapid onset gender dysphoria which is a big term very controversial term but we're going to try to do it

justice once again. The reason why we were anxious to talk about this and talk about it early into this podcast is because of the volume of context we get both of us as psychotherapists about this issue.

And we feel it's really, really important to give it its own episode so that people can say,

what are they talking about when they're talking about or og d

and some people act as if it's a devilish term

and some people say it's kind of impenetrable what is it.

So hopefully by the end of this episode people will actually say okay is a description of a phenomenon and

It is carries implications I suppose it sure does I think it would be helpful. We can start out by just explaining what our OGD means and then perhaps you and I can talk a little bit about our experience with this because rather than being kind of

outsiders just following the academic literature we have a lot of firsthand

experience with this population.

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