![]() Many (62.5%) of the AYAs had reportedly been diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder or neurodevelopmental disability prior to the onset of their gender dysphoria (range of the number of pre-existing diagnoses 0–7). Per parent report, 41% of the AYAs had expressed a non-heterosexual sexual orientation before identifying as transgender. The AYA children described were predominantly natal female (82.8%) with a mean age of 16.4 years at the time of survey completion and a mean age of 15.2 when they announced a transgender-identification. There were 256 parent-completed surveys that met study criteria. Open-ended responses from two questions were targeted for qualitative analysis of themes. Quantitative findings are presented as frequencies, percentages, ranges, means and/or medians. Data were collected anonymously via SurveyMonkey. Website moderators and potential participants were encouraged to share the recruitment information and link to the survey with any individuals or communities that they thought might include eligible participants to expand the reach of the project through snowball sampling techniques. To maximize the chances of finding cases meeting eligibility criteria, the three websites (4thwavenow, transgender trend, and youthtranscriticalprofessionals) were selected for targeted recruitment. The study’s eligibility criteria included parental response that their child had a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria and parental indication that their child’s gender dysphoria began during or after puberty. The purpose of this study was to collect data about parents’ observations, experiences, and perspectives about their adolescent and young adult (AYA) children showing signs of an apparent sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria that began during or after puberty, and develop hypotheses about factors that may contribute to the onset and/or expression of gender dysphoria among this demographic group.įor this descriptive, exploratory study, recruitment information with a link to a 90-question survey, consisting of multiple-choice, Likert-type and open-ended questions was placed on three websites where parents had reported sudden or rapid onsets of gender dysphoria occurring in their teen or young adult children. Academics have raised questions about the role of social media in the development of gender dysphoria. Recently, clinicians have reported that post-puberty presentations of gender dysphoria in natal females that appear to be rapid in onset is a phenomenon that they are seeing more and more in their clinic. Parents also report that their children exhibited an increase in social media/internet use prior to disclosure of a transgender identity. Parents describe that the onset of gender dysphoria seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe. ![]() The case went cold after detectives couldn’t find any leads or suspects.In on-line forums, parents have reported that their children seemed to experience a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria, appearing for the first time during puberty or even after its completion. ![]() She was most likely sexually assaulted and killed just outside the Pearly Grove Baptist Church before being dragged across the street and left in the field, according to authorities. Henry had been reported missing three days prior and according to an autopsy report, she was killed three to five days before her body was discovered. The woman was identified through her fingerprints as Henry, a Fresno resident and the mother of an infant boy. A deceased woman was found lying face-down with multiple stab wounds. 24, 1987, to a report of a body found in a field at the corner of Church and Fig avenues. A 71-year-old registered sex offender was arrested on suspicion of killing Henry, after his DNA matched that of the probable killer.įresno Police Department officers responded on Feb. Last week, the family of the beloved Fresno mother finally got some closure. For nearly 36 years, the person who stabbed 22-year-old Jacqueline Denise Henry to death walked free.
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