Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02576-9 Pediatricians chart growth and development marking height weight, age of walking, talking and other landmarks. Sexual maturity is one of them. Most pediatricians, psychologists and psychiatrists would acknowledge normal episodes of gender confusion during early adolescence. Hormones arrive rather suddenly and in significant quantity. Hormones do not arrive with a label or an instruction book. Rapid physical change, growth, emotional and mental maturation all characterize adolescence. Moments of gender confusion and lots of other growth surprises should be expected, supported and forgiven. By age 21, all these growth issues usually resolve themselves. Genital mutalation of adolescents for any reason amounts to assault.