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This article provides an overview of five contemporary clinical and research issues pertaining to adolescents with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria: (1) increased referrals to specialized gender identity clinics; (2) alteration in the sex ratio; (3) suicidality; (4) “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) as a new developmental pathway; (5) and best practice clinical care for adolescents who may have ROGD.
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Aitken et al. (2015) also reported on the sex ratio of adolescents seen in the Toronto clinic between 1976 and 1998, where the male-to-female sex ratio was 1.51:1 (but corresponding clinical control data were not available).
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