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Følgende fremgår af side 25
– 27 i boge ”Irreversible Da age –
Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze”
af Shrier, udgivet 2020 af Swift Press:
I
, Lisa Litt a , o
-gyn turned public health researcher and mother of two, was scrolling through
social media when she noticed a statistical peculiarity: several adolescents, most of them girls, from her
small town in Rhode Island had come out as transgender
–
all from within the same
frie d group. With the
first t o a ou e e ts, I thought, Wo , that s great, Dr. Litt a said, a light Ne Jerse a e t
tweaking her vowels. Then came announcements three, four, five, and six.
Dr. Littman knew almost nothing about gender dysphoria
–
her research interests had been
confined to reproductive health: abortion, stigma and contraception. But she knew enough to recognize that
the u ers ere u h higher tha e ta t pre ale e data ould ha e predi ted. I studied epide iolog
… a d he ou see u ers that greatl e eed our e pe tatio s, it s orth it to look at hat ight e
ausi g it. Ma e it s a differe e of ho ou re ou ti g. It ould e a lot of thi gs. But ou k o , those
ere high u ers.
In fact, they turned out to be unprecedented. In America and across the Western world,
adolescents were reporting a sudden spike in gender dysphoria
–
the medical condition associated with the
so ial desig atio tra sge der . Bet ee
a d
the u er of ge der surgeries for atal
females
in the U.S. quadrupled, with biological women suddenly accounting for
–
as we have seen
–
70 percent of all
gender surgeries. In 2018, the UK reported a 4,400 percent rise over the previous decade in teenage girls
seeking gender treatments. In Canada, Sweden, Finland, and the UK, clinicians and gender therapists began
reporting a sudden and dramatic shift in the demographics of those presenting with gender dysphoria
–
from predominantly preschool-aged boys to predominantly adolescent girls.
Dr. Litt
a s uriosit s agged o the so ial edia posts she d see . Wh ould a
psychological ailment that had been almost exclusively the province of boys suddenly befall teenage girls?
And why would the incidence of gender dysphoria be so much higher in friend clusters?
Maybe she had missed something. She immersed herself in the scientific literature on gender
dysphoria. She needed to understand the nature, presentation, and common treatment of this disorder.
Dr. Littman began preparing a study of her own, gathering data from parents of trans-
identifying adolescents who had had no childhood history of gender dysphoria. The lack of childhood history
was critical; as we have seen, traditional gender dysphoria typically begins in early childhood. That was true
especially for the small number of natal girls who presented with it. Dr. Littman wanted to know whether
what she was seeing was a new variant on an old affliction or something else entirely. She assembled 256
detailed parent reports and analyzed the data. Her results astonished her.
Two patterns stood out: First, the clear majority (65 percent) of the adolescent girls who had
discovered transgender identity in adolescence
– out of the lue –
had done so after a period of prolonged
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