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I have been waiting a year to interview this woman.

Her name is Dr. Lisa Litman.

But if her name sounds familiar, it's because she has played a big role in one of the most

intense national debates the country has seen in recent years.

It all started when Dr. Litman began to notice an unusual number of teenagers announcing

that they were transgender, in particular girls announcing that they were now suddenly transgender

on a scale that did not make sense statistically.

It seemed to her like an anomaly.

So as a physician and a researcher at Brown University, she decided she would study the

issue.

Well her research found that children might be transitioning, might be determining, I

should say, that they are transgender on the basis of peer or cultural influence, that

this could be a social contagion, if you will.

What's now known as rapid onset gender dysphoria is a term she coined.

It's controversial and it appears at least based on the research that she has done and

now some others have taken a look at as a very real phenomenon though you'd be hard

pressed to find people within the medical community to support that.

As you can imagine Dr. Litman immediately came under attack, trans activists accused her

of bigotry.

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