Rapid onset gender dysphoria and other myths
The anti-trans movement created a new pathology they’re shopping around to various (mostly right-wing) news outlets. It’s called “rapid onset gender dysphoria” and you catch it from websites like DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Reddit. A great takedown of this internet illness was published by the Advocate and I encourage you to check it out. Having said that, I want to focus on the more obvious, yet overlooked flaws of this concocted condition: it asserts itself to be both “rapid onset” and “gender dysphoria.” Actual gender dysphoria cannot, by the clinical definition of the term be rapid. Here’s the clinical definition of gender dysphoria: “… of at least 6 months duration…” Unless you’re prepared to claim that half a year is “rapid,” by the clinical definition of “gender dysphoria,” it cannot be both “rapid” and gender dysphoria. While I’m sure the irony is unintentional, the main vector for “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
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“Rapid onset gender dysphoria and other myths” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2018 at Transadvocate.com, “Rapid onset gender dysphoria and other myths” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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“Rapid onset gender dysphoria and other myths” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for healthcare and medicine.
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- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life37%
- 3Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication13%
- 4Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication12%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community11%
- 6Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life11%
Academic framing
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- 217%
- 317%
- 46%
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- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
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- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveYour How-To Guide to Gender Critical Activism
This is where you’re really going to put your new language skills to good use!When you absolutely, positively, have got to dupe someone into not thinking very much about what you’re actually saying, tell them that someone’s coming after their children. This rhetoric worked to…
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
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