This presentation provides an introduction to the ‘gender revolution’ and its impact on younger people and explores how rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) among pre-teen and younger teenage girls has surged in recent years. It explores some of the common features, and background factors, in cases of ROGD among under-18s [and some of the uncertainties which surround medical interventions]. However, the main focus is on (a) some practical steps - positive and protective - that parents and churches can take to promote in children and teenagers a healthy sense of identity, gender identity, and associated gender expression rooted in God’s love to us in creation and in Christ and (b) how parents can respond if a child is gender-questioning or identifies as trans and how churches can help.
