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this week's guest I'm going to pay homage to another Colette contributor.

Physician scientist Lisa Littman, who way back in 2019 did an interview with me in which she

described her findings on what she dubbed rapid onset gender dysphoria.

A condition whereby youth, typically young female teenagers, develop a sudden conviction

that they are transgender, despite typically having exhibited no signs of gender dysphoria in the past.

Dr Littman theorized that in many cases this might be influenced by external factors, such as friend groups and internet chat, a phenomenon more generally described as social contagion.

At the time, Dr. Lippman's research was seen as controversial, as it went against the grain of the increasingly

orthodox view that all child testimonials about their gender should be taken at face value. But now comes fresh research that backs up Dr. Littman's discovery of this novel form of gender dysphoria.

In a newly published peer-reviewed article appearing in the archives of Sexual Behavior, co-author Northwestern University

psychologist Jay Michael Bailey describes a study of 1,655 possible cases of rapid onset gender dysphoria or ROGD reported by parents

enlisting at a website called Parents of ROGD-G-D-K-K-K-K-K-D-K-K-K-D-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-Kd- of a child whom she believes is afflicted by R-O-G-D.

In the interview that follows, I spoke to Professor Bailey about his findings, his previous research in the field, and the criticism he expects this new paper to attract.

I noticed this paper was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. I'm not any kind of clinical specialist in this area.

Though I have as a late person noticed that sexologists seem to have a more holistic view of this problem, would you generally say that sexologists are less beholden to some of the dogmas in the gender area simply because maybe their discussions with patients, their clients just tend to be more wide-ranging?

I do think that the people who know the most about gender dysphoria tend to be sexologist.

Furthermore, the editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior is Ken Zooker, who is, in my opinion,

the world's foremost authority on gender dysphoria, especially in children and adolescents.

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