Category: Rapid-onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)

• Recent cohorts show a marked increase in adolescent referrals with pre-existing psychiatric morbidity.

  In a nationwide Finnish study, referrals to gender identity services increased substantially after 2010, with a growing proportion of adolescents already receiving specialist psychiatric treatment prior to referral. While the study does not examine rapid-onset gender dysphoria as a diagnostic construct, it documents a clear shift in referral patterns and clinical profiles over time, including a higher baseline mental health burden in more recent cohorts.

  Ruuska, S.-M., Tuisku, K., Holttinen, T., and Kaltiala, R. (2026). “Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study,” Acta Paediatrica: 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.70533.

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