Commentary
By 2017, already professionally engaged in transgender politics, I began to focus on the anecdotally observed phenomenon of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD): a sudden declaration of a need for gender transition in adolescents and young adults (AYA) who had never presented as dysphoric in childhood. I sought research material, but available studies did not separate out AYA onset from childhood onset. So it was left to parents of AYA teens suddenly presenting with dysphoria to drive interest in researchers and even help to produce it.
