The theory of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) may explain the explosion in the numbers, and the changing profiles, of adolescents transitioning over the past decade. But some people don't want you to read about it.
My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored. But I Won’t Be | The Free Press | Michael Bailey:
July 10, 2023 - "I am a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. I have been a professor for 34 years, and a researcher for 40. Over the decades, I have studied controversial topics — from IQ, to sexual orientation, to transsexualism (what we called transgenderism before 2015), to pedophilia. I have published well over 100 academic articles.... My research has been denounced by people of all political stripes because I have never prioritized a favored constituency over the truth. But I have never had an article retracted. Until now.
"On March 29, I published an article in the prestigious academic journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.... The ... article, 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases', was coauthored with Suzanna Diaz, who[m] I met in 2018 at a small meeting of scientists, journalists, and parents of children they believed had Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD).
"ROGD was first described in the literature in 2018 by the physician and researcher Lisa Littman. It is an explanation of the new phenomenon of adolescents, largely girls, with no history of gender dysphoria, suddenly declaring they want to transition to the opposite sex..... Until recently, females treated for gender dysphoria were masculine-presenting girls who had hated being female since early childhood. By contrast, girls with ROGD are often conventionally feminine, but tend to have other social and emotional issues. The theory behind ROGD is that through social contagion from friends, social media, and even school, vulnerable girls are exposed to the idea that their normal adolescent angst is the result of an underlying transgender identity. These girls then suddenly declare that they are transgender.... After the declaration, the girls may desire — and receive — drastic medical interventions including mastectomies and testosterone injections.
"There is ample evidence that in progressive communities, multiple girls from the same peer group are announcing they are trans almost simultaneously. There has been a sharp increase in this phenomenon across the industrialized West. A recent review from the UK, which keeps better records than America, showed a greater than tenfold increase in referrals of adolescent girls during just the past decade. But there have been virtually no scientific data or studies on the subject. In part that is because researchers who have touched this topic have been punished for their curiosity. Just ask Lisa Littman. Ultimately, her paper on the subject resulted in an unnecessary 'correction' by the journal that published it, and the loss of Littman’s academic affiliation with Brown University.... This explains why my coauthor, 'Suzanna Diaz,' doesn’t go by her real name....
"Our article was based on parent reports of 1,655 adolescent and young adult children. Three-fourths of them were female. Emotional problems were common among this group, especially anxiety and depression, which many parents said preceded gender issues by years.... Parents observed that after their children socially transitioned, their mental health deteriorated. A small number—seven percent of those whose parents answered Suzanna’s survey—had received medical transition treatment, including drugs to block puberty, or cross-sex hormones. Disturbingly, those young people with more emotional problems were especially likely to have socially and medically transitioned....
"Our article was published to a fair amount of attention.... But from the start, it got negative attention from trans activists and their political allies. Almost immediately these activists began to lobby both the publisher of Archives of Sexual Behavior (Springer Nature Group) and the organization affiliated with the journal (International Academy of Sex Research, or IASR) to retract the article and to punish the editor of Archives, psychologist Kenneth Zucker, because he had published our work. On May 5, a group of 100 academic activists and gender clinicians published an online Open Letter expressing 'ethical' and 'editorial concerns' about the journal and 'serious concerns over research ethics and intellectual integrity' of our article....
"On May 23, we received an email from Springer informing us that they were retracting our article. The ostensible reason:
The Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief have retracted this article due to noncompliance with our editorial policies around consent. The participants of the survey have not provided written informed consent to participate in scholarly research or to have their responses published in a peer reviewed article. Additionally, they have not provided consent to publish to have their data included in this article. Table 1 and the Supplementary material have therefore been removed to protect the participants’ privacy.
"We appealed after consulting a lawyer, but Springer retracted our paper on June 14. Springer’s reasoning was preposterous and simply an excuse to retract an article they wanted to go away in order to stop the controversy.... All parents completing Suzanna’s survey knew they were being asked questions about their children’s ROGD, and they decided to answer. Parents were promised privacy of personal information, and they got it.... We did inform participants that we would publish their data. At the end of the survey participants were told: 'We will publish our data on our website when we have a large enough sample. . .'
"We are outraged and disappointed that our article was retracted. But the ... article’s retraction has inadvertently resulted in a triumph for truth and reason. Start with the support we’ve received from FAIR, Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, and others. Unless you have ever been cancelled, you have no idea how important this is. The campaign against our article, from the open letter to the final retraction, has generated immense publicity by academic standards, so far largely favorable. Our academic article has been viewed online more than 100,000 times in not quite three months, an astonishing number for an article of this nature. This reflects a thirst for knowledge about this important subject. Speaking for myself, this episode has guaranteed that I will study ROGD until we understand it."
Read more: https://www.thefp.com/p/trans-activists-killed-my-scientific-paper
Read retracted article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02576-9
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