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#SciAm piece on the lack of scientific support for so-called #RapidOnsetGenderDysphoria associated with a notion there can be 'social contagion' among teenagers

'Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at the University of California, San Francisco, Child and Adolescent Gender Center, concurs. “To talk about what children are thinking, feeling and doing, particularly as they get old enough to have their own minds and narratives, you need to interview them,” she says...
'Parents can often be the last to know about their child’s gender identity,..."It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” she says. “It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.”
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“In some ways, [kids] are far more advanced than I am, as somebody in my 70s, about how they live and understand gender,” Ehrensaft adds. “So if we want to really understand gender, turn to the experts—and that would be the youth themselves.”

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