rapid-onset gender dysphoria

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Etymology

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Coined by Lisa Littman in July 2016. First appeared in a notice posted to a gender-critical blog and was later popularized by a 2018 paper by Littman.[1][2]

Noun

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rapid-onset gender dysphoria (uncountable)

  1. (gender-critical) Controversial and scientifically unsupported subset of gender dysphoria claimed to be caused by social influence.
    • 2022 September 8, Nikolas Lanum, “New 'Tucker Carlson Originals' two-part special sees 'detransitioners' speak out against trans 'movement'”, in Fox News[3]:
      Rapid onset gender dysphoria, by contrast, usually only relates to biological females, and is determined by a sudden acknowledgment they may be trans with little to no prior signals.

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  • Southern Poverty Law Center[4], 2024 August 22 (last accessed)
  1. ^ Jasmine Andersson (2020 June 12) “Rapid onset gender dysphoria: what we know about the term amid JK Rowling trans row”, in i news[1]
  2. ^ Ben Kesslen (2022 August 18) “How the idea of a "transgender contagion" went viral—and caused untold harm”, in MIT Technology Review[2]