In 2018, Lisa Littman, a physician and researcher at Brown University, was canceled for research suggesting that trans identity was a social fad. She coined the term “rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD)” and observed that it was a rapidly spreading identity with pre-teen and teenage girls. She was dog-piled and labeled “transphobic.” The journal that published her paper retracted it. Trans activists vehemently denied that there was any element of social contagion to gender dysphoria. Only Dr. Littman was right. The Wall Street Journal now feels safe to announce that “Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis.” What would have been dangerous to publish in the year 2022 is now safe to say. How did this happen? Because, like all fads, this one has begun to fade. A new study finds that “among 18- to 22-year-olds, trans identification was cut nearly in half from 2022 to 2024 [and] nonbinary identification dropped by more than half between 2023 and 2024.” The tragedy is that researchers who warned this was transient were smeared into silence so the medical industry could keep the surgery and drug conveyor belts running. The science didn’t change; the politics did. And now we’re left with a generation of kids carrying the “irreversible damage” from adult cowardice. The post Trans Identity Fad Fades appeared first on Redacted.