ROGD Awareness Day
Exploring the Impact of ROGD in Schools

We’re excited to share highlights from our recent event!

What is the phenomenon of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria? What role do schools play in affecting this phenomenon? How can you and your children prepare and thrive in the new school year?

Featuring Democrat Texas Rep. Shawn Thierry, Lisa Littman MD, Michael Bailey PhD, James Lindsay PhD, Jennifer Sey, Tiffany Justice, Beth Feeley, Erin Friday, January Littlejohn, Scarlett Johnson, Shannon Adcock, Alvin Lui and more.

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Event Schedule

10:00 am
Registration

10:15 am
Welcome
Carrie Mendoza, MD and Director of Genspect USA

10:30 am – 11:30 am
ROGD: What have we learned? What questions should we be asking?
Speakers: Lisa Littman, MD and Michael Bailey, PhD
Audience Q&A

11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Queering of American Schools: Gender Ideology and American Education
Speaker: James Lindsay, PhD
Audience Q&A

12:45 pm – 1:30 pm
Crossing the Partisan Divide with Texas Rep. Shawn Thierry
Democratic Texas State Representative, Shawn Thierry
Audience Q&A

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Panel: The School’s Role in Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)
Moderator: Tiffany Justice
Panelists: Shannon Adcock, Scarlett Johnson, January Littlejohn, Jeanette Cooper, Kate Parker
Audience Q&A

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Standing Up for Your Parental Rights in Your School: A Practical Approach
Speaker: Jennifer Sey
Audience Q&A

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Panel: Solutions to Prepare and Thrive in the School Year Ahead
Moderator: Beth Feeley
Panelists: Vernadette Broyles, Esq, Daniel Cragg, Esq, Erin Friday, Esq, Alvin Lui, Natalya Murakhver
Audience Q&A

5:00 pm
Conclusion

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Speakers

Shannon Adcock

Shannon Adcock is founder and President of Awake Illinois 501c4 and Awake Americans 501c3. Her accidental activism began in 2020 to reopen schools and formally launched in 2021. After losing her school board election where she was labeled a “racist” for denouncing critical race theory and DEI programming in schools, she saw how parents needed a platform to advocate for their children and Awake Illinois was launched. With more than 30 chapters statewide, the organization is proud to lift up everyday citizens voices via lobbying and resources to combat any agenda that will harm students or children. Earlier this year, Awake Illinois successfully defeated IL Rep. Anne Stava-Murray’s radical house bill 4876 that would have considered parents “child abusers” for opposing gender reassignment interventions for their kids. Shannon is a bold voice for legislative policy, stopping antisemitism in our K-12 classrooms, and protecting children from gender ideology. Her motto is “be uncancellable”. She and her husband of 21 years are raising their three children and two old English sheepdogs in Naperville, Illinois.

Michael Bailey, PhD

Michael Bailey is an American psychologist, behavioral geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University who is a leading researcher of gender dysphoria. His groundbreaking work includes recent peer-reviewed papers such as “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” (2023) and “Detransition and Desistance among Previously Trans-identified Young Adults” (2023). Littman, L., O’Malley, S., Kerschner, H., & Bailey, J. M. (2023). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-20.

Vernadette Broyles, Esq

Vernadette Ramirez Broyles is the President and General Counsel of Child & Parental Rights Campaign, Inc., a not-for-profit public interest law firm that engages in litigation and advocacy across the country to protect children’s health and defend parental rights against the impacts of gender identity ideology. Vernadette received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree in biology from Yale University. Vernadette has practiced as a family law litigator and a Guardian ad Litem for children, has served as an Assistant District Attorney in Atlanta Georgia, and has served on the State Board of the Georgia Department of Human Services (Co-chairing the child protective services committee) and on Advisory Boards to the U.S. Department of Justice Violence Against Women program and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program.

Jeannette Cooper

Jeannette Cooper is a co-founder of Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), a nonprofit group of volunteers from across the world working together to abolish the affirmation model of “gender identity.” PEC connects people who have been harmed by the gender industry with legal assistance through their project Transition Justice. Jeannette lives in Chicago.

Daniel J. Cragg, Esq

Attorney Daniel J. Cragg is a partner in the Minneapolis law firm Eckland & Blando. His practice focuses on complex personal injury matters, commercial litigation, labor & employment law, factoring and asset-based lending, admiralty and maritime law, and procedurally complex cases including cases against the government. Daniel won the largest single claimant personal injury verdict in Minnesota state court history. He is representing a detransitioner in a Wisconsin medical malpractice lawsuit.

Beth Feeley

Beth Feeley is the co-host of the national podcast Take Back Our Schools with Andrew Guttman, and founder of New Trier Neighbors, a Wilmette-based nonprofit advocating for viewpoint diversity in schools, depoliticized curricula, and parental rights. Beth also directed the launch of 1776 Unites, a response by the Woodson Center to the 1619 Project, and continues to oversee the development of Woodson Center’s free supplemental lessons in empowering black history.

Erin Friday, Esq

Erin Friday is a licensed California attorney. She is a mother and wife. Erin is a lifelong Democrat whose daughter used to believe that she was a boy. She co-leads the Western Region of Our Duty, an international group of parents and allies who are fighting to protect children and vulnerable adults against gender ideology. She also leads a local branch of Parents of Rapid-Onset of Gender Dysphoric Kids. She has authored articles in the Daily Signal, the Ohio Press, the Epoch Times, Our Duty Substack, Post Millennial and for Parents of Inconvenient Truths about Trans. She is frequently found in Sacramento fighting bills that erode parental rights and force parents to subject their children to gender interventions.

Scarlett Johnson

Scarlett Johnson is a Moms for Liberty Ambassador from Wisconsin, speaking out at local school board meetings and pushing back against legislative changes that negatively affect children and families. Scarlett is being sued for defamation for criticizing her school district on social media for employing a “social justice coordinator.” The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) is defending Scarlett arguing that her posts are protected by the First Amendment.

Tiffany Justice

Tiffany is a wife and mom of four school-aged children. In 2016 she stepped up to serve for 4 years on the School District of Indian River County, FL School Board. She believes that kids in public school deserve innovation and parents have the right to know the union interference and government bureaucracy that is keeping that innovation from happening in their children’s district.

James Lindsay, PhD

James Lindsay is an author, internationally recognized speaker, and the founder and president of New Discourses. He is best known for his relentless criticism of “Woke” ideology, the now-famous Grievance Studies Affair, and his bestselling books including Race Marxism and Cynical Theories, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition to writing and speaking, Lindsay is the voice of the New Discourses Podcast and has been a guest on prominent media outlets including The Joe Rogan Experience, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and NPR.

Alvin Lui

Alvin Lui is the dynamic President of Courage Is A Habit, an Indiana-based nonprofit. He is a political refugee from California who sought a new beginning in the heart of the Midwest. Alvin quickly realized that the same anti-American ideologies he fled were taking root across the nation. Fueled by this discovery, he dedicated himself to protecting future generations through Courage Is A Habit. This innovative organization equips parents and legislators with practical tools and strategies to protect children’s innocence.

January Littlejohn

January Littlejohn is a wife and stay-at-home mom in Florida with a background in mental health counselling. In 2020, her 13-year-old daughter was socially transitioned at her public middle school without her knowledge or consent. Since then, she has become a parental rights advocate and outspoken on the dangers of gender ideology, the affirmation-only approach, and the medical transition of children. She is a Senior Fellow Parent Advocate with Do No Harm and helps other families navigate this crisis with their children.

Lisa Littman, MD

Dr. Littman is a physician-scientist whose research is focused on gender dysphoria, the experiences of people who desist (or re-identify) after identifying as transgender, and people who detransition after gender transition. She is known for coining the phrase “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (also called ROGD) to describe a phenomenon that has been observed by clinicians and parents and has been acknowledged by several detransitioners. The evidence supporting the ROGD hypothesis has increased since the 2018 publication of the research. Dr. Littman serves as the President and Director of the Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research (ICGDR) and she serves on the advisory boards of Gender Dysphoria Alliance (GDA) and Genspect.

Nancy McDermott

Nancy McDermott is writer, speaker, and expert on American parenting culture. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS) at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and a former advisor to the Park Slope Parents online community where she earned the moniker “the voice of reason”.

She became concerned about the impact of therapeutic child-rearing while writing her history of American parenting culture since the 1970s, The Problem with Parenting (Praeger 2020). ”What began as a well-meaning attempt to free children to ‘be themselves’ has undermined our ability to transfer key cultural values and norms from one generation to the next, Gender distress is the most profound expression of this disorientation. As adults we need to take responsibility for helping our youngest citizens to find their way.”

Carrie Mendoza, MD

Carrie D. Mendoza, MD is the former Director of FAIR in Medicine with the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, the current Director of Genspect USA, and a practicing Emergency Medicine physician with over 20 years of experience working in rural, suburban, and urban hospitals treating snakebites to gunshot wounds to Covid-19 patients. Her practical experience provides unique insights into the American medical system and how the modern healthcare bureaucracy can scale harmful policies while ignoring the negative side effects. Dr Mendoza will share her experience with the opioid epidemic and how the lessons learned about its origin, scale, and mitigation can inform our understanding of medicalizing radical gender ideology and how to stop its harm.

Natalya Murakhver

Natalya Murakhver is the co-founder of Restore Childhood, a national nonprofit empowering parents to direct their children’s upbringing, education and health. In 2020, she helped organize #KeepNYCSchoolsOpen, and brought a lawsuit against NYC to reopen public schools in person with teachers in classrooms. In 2021, she founded the #MaskLikeAKid campaign to raise awareness of prolonged restrictions placed on children. In January 2022 she worked with an international team of scientists and pediatric, infectious disease, emergency, and ICU doctors to launch the Urgency of Normal to raise awareness of the effects of Covid-19 mitigations on children, and create a path to restoring normalcy. Restore Childhood is currently producing “15 Days…” a documentary about the pandemic school closures and has recently released a toolkit for parents on gender in schools “An URGENT Conversation” an Advocacy Toolkit about Children, Gender and School Policy.

Kate Parker

Kate Parker is a California Democrat, a parent, librarian, and former school board member. Kate has experienced firsthand the expansion of gender ideology in libraries, schools, and school boards and provides insights into how to navigate these institutions.

Jennifer Sey

Jennifer Sey is an American author, business executive, and retired gymnast. She was a seven-time member of the United States women’s national gymnastics team and was the 1986 U.S. Women’s All-Around National Champion. Jennifer has been speaking truth and standing up for women and children for nearly two decades. First in 2008, when she wrote a book called “Chalked Up” exposing the abusive coaching practices in gymnastics. She stood up again in 2020, speaking inconvenient truths during COVID-19, stating public schools should be open because children’s education matters. Jen is an expert brand builder, having been named one of Forbes’ Most Influential Chief Marketing Officers two years in a row. Now Jen is taking all that experience as an athlete, executive, and advocate for women and children to build something uniquely her own as the Founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics, the only brand standing up for the protection of women’s sports and spaces. Notable brand ambassadors include Riley Gaines and detransitioner Chloe Cole.

Shawn Thierry, Esq, Democrat Texas State Representative

With a continued record of shattering glass ceilings, State Representative Shawn Thierry is the first woman to serve in the historic Texas House District 146 seat. She is an alumna of Howard University and Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University and has been a licensed attorney for 27 years.

Serving her fourth term in the Texas Legislature, Rep. Thierry is regarded as a “voice for the voiceless.” She is recognized for being a fearless child advocate. Described as a “policy powerhouse,” Rep. Thierry has placed bipartisan, commonsense solutions above politics with her support for many bills, including Texas HB 900 passed in June 2023, which requires ratings on explicit library materials in public schools. Most notably, Rep. Thierry crossed party lines to help pass Texas SB 14 in June 2023, the bill that raised the age for body modification with hormones and surgeries to age 18. Her eloquent speech garnered national attention, with 2.3 million views on X.

Rep. Thierry has earned many notable honors and has been named one of the Top 30 Most Influential Women in Houston. She says her greatest title is simply, “Mom,” to her 11-year-old daughter, Klaire Bijou.

She cites her life creed from the words of Erma Bombeck: “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and I could say, ‘I used everything that you gave me.'”