Could childhood trauma influence the development of rapid onset gender dysphoria?Sincerely the overwhelmed but very concerned mom of a struggling son.
>>38597676Gtfo to mumsnet retard
>>38597676For what it's worth, I first remember wanting to be a girl around the beginning of puberty. I wouldn't really call it rapid onset, it didn't appear all at once or anything; my gender dysphoria came on me the exact same way my awareness of my body and puberty itself came on me. My parents weren't great to me but I wasn't really traumatized. And I'm still trans.
>>38597676that would require rapid onset gender dysphoria to be realwhich is dubious at best, since all the evidence we have for it is a bunch of parents claiming their kids have it and "not having seen any prior signs"so far, not a single piece of research has been done on rogd that takes into account the experience of the actual kids with gender dysphoria, only what the parents seei recommend instead hearing out your kid, and letting them explore themselves, try out new names and pronouns, new clothes, stuff like thatif the dysphoria isn't real, then they'll realize that, since they'll have had the experience to know
>>38597914unrelated but i like how well picrel shows my experienceleft was me in the first few years, right is me now
>>38597676no i wanted to be a girl before all the child abuse happened
yknow, the thing that's funny is thatparents who talk about rogd oe about how "i'm losing my child" are actively traumatizing their kidsshowing them that the very people that the world told them were the most trustworthy, will instead deny and push back their identitiesand what's even more tragic is that, if you try to tell them this, they'll oftentimes shut it off, or make it about themselvesthey'll just never even entertain they idea that they could be hurting their kid for no reason
>>38597676Yes.
>>38598121No.
>>38597676the only concerning thing here is your inability to accept your daughter
