Written resources

We’ve collated a few written resources you may find helpful – including a couple we wrote ourselves. Browse at your leisure, or navigate using the links below.

Peer-reviewed papers

We’re proud to work alongside ground-breaking American public health researcher Dr. Lisa Littman, the first scientist to investigate the phenomenon of the growing number of adolescents identifying as trans.

Littman’s 2018 paper, “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports”, paved the way for many other contributions – including providing the data on which Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage was based. You can see Lisa speaking about her 2018 paper in Genspect’s ROGD Awareness Day conference

Her subsequent paper in 2021, “Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners”, conducted a thorough survey of the factors motivating detransition. Lisa’s insights continue to prove invaluable to the growing number of people concerned about poor medical provision for gender-questioning youth.

We also recommend:

Lisa Marchiano: Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Psychic Epidemics

Roberto D’Angelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny & Patrick ClarkeOne Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria 

SEGM: Correction of a Key Study: No Evidence of “Gender-Affirming” Surgeries Improving Mental Health 

Anastassis Spiliadis: ‘Taking the lid off the box’: The value of extended clinical assessment for adolescents presenting with gender identity difficulties

Elie Vandenbussche: Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey

EGGÖ (Dr. Bettina Reiter): Dossier Geschlechtsdysphorie im Jugendalter

Media articles

The EconomistAn English Ruling on Transgender Teens Could Have Global Repercussions

Newsweek: We need balance when it comes to gender dysphoric kids  

The Sunday Times: The Detransitioners – what happens when trans men want to be women again  

Public Discourse: The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions  

Sexology Today: Do trans-kids stay trans- when they grow up?

Quillette: No one is born in the wrong body 

Quillette: ‘When Sons Become Daughters’: ROGD in boys

Quillette: Gaslighting of Concerned Parents

Healthcare & social issues

Sex, gender and dysphoria: Stephen Levine’s expert affadavit for Hecox v. Little

Puberty Blockers: I couldn’t sit by while so many others made the same mistake 

Autism: Autism, Puberty, and Gender Dysphoria, by Elizabeth Hawker 

The Suicide Myth: Suicide facts and myths 

Gender-questioning Boys: Masculinity, anime and gender dysphoria 

Parental Alienation: Trans kids may reject family, not the other way around

Uncritical Allegiance: The harms of queer ideology

Transgender Trend: A Childhood is not Reversible

Parental guidance

Transgender TrendUseful terminology 

Bayswater Support GroupTop ten tips for parents 

Lisa MarchianoNew Guidance for Parents of Teens with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

Sasha AyadParenting a young adult with ROGD