So I want to get into that ROGD study and by extension the world of GC/anti-trans NGOs or think tanks etc
for the tldr, just skip to the next post
if you do want to read all the details, consider it a resource for anyone who'd like to understand the mechanics of the GC scene
First, the study itself. It was a survey of parents - with no input from actual patients - on three anti-trans websites which has since been heavily criticized on a number of grounds including methodology, and strongly refuted by the entire American medical establishment. Littman herself is firmly in the GC academic camp (if you look up her bio, she sits on an advisory boards of multiple GC think tanks) along with the infamous duo of Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey, who I'll get into in a second. Every study since on trans minors - except one carried out by, no surprise, Bailey - has refuted ROGD, either finding no evidence to support its conclusions or evidence directly refuting them.
If you look at the groups Littman is involved with - she chairs the Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research, and sits on the advisory boards of Genspect and the Gender Dysphoria Alliance - two things become very clear. First off, they're a who's who of the academic end of the TERF/GC world, and second they're extremely incestuous. It's basically the same handful of people in slightly different combinations.
Genspect, among numerous anti-scentific and fringe views. opposes transition for any under their mid-20s (which directly influenced the failed Oklahoma law to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under 26) and falsely claims that there is no evidence (there's plenty of evidence) that social or medical transition decreases suicide risk for youth with gender dysphoria. It's very closely linked to the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) - really they're the same group, both run by Stella O'Malley, with virtually identical advisory boards - which promotes the same ideas and is often cited not only in the press but also in legal despite not being accredited by any major medical body in the U.S. or UK,
and has close ties to evangelical anti-LGBTQ+ activists like Julia Maxwell (look up Lovewise UK) and the truly odious and misleadingly named American College of Pedatricians (ACPeds), which is not only anti-trans, but strenuously anti-gay and anti-reproductive rights as well (again, just go to their website, it's all there), and the Alliance Defending Freedom. Another thing all of these groups support is gender conversion therapy. O'Malley is a member of Thoughtful Therapists, who also have links to evangelicals, and whose main issue is opposing conversion therapy bans that would stop them from doing "exploratory therapy" which in other words is basically trying to convince people to detransition.
The Gender Dysphoria Alliance's board includes multiple members of Genspect's board, and Ray Blanchard. Blanchard is a sexologist who came up with the widely discredited, and deeply offensive, theory that views all trans women thru a fetishistic lens as either "homosexual transsexuals" (attracted to men) or "autogynephiles" (sexually attracted to the idea of being women), and was the driving force behind its inclusion in the DSM-V. His theory is a foundational element of TERF/GC ideology, and has more recently spilled out into less specialized, more general anti-trans discourse. the GDA's website also cites work by J. Michael Baily, the foremost promoter of Blanchard's ideas, and problematic for many, many reasons (again, look him up). It also shares board members with Genspect, including multiple detransitioned folks.
The board of The Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria (these fucking names!) includes Littman, Bailey, and Stella O'Malley again, as well as Lisa Marchiano, a Jungian analyst associated with SEGM and another promoter of ROGD and detransitioning. I won't go over its policies bc they're more of the same. It is specifically associated with that Bailey study above that claims to support Littman's ROGD conclusions.
I could go on but you get the idea