And on the subject of deviation... I'm back to the OP topic of counter-view of ROGD as it is the last day of a very successful awareness raising campaign on #ROGDWEEK2018.
I joined a parents site in desperation that everyone was so happy to erase my dear daughter, indulge her on an impossibility and celebrate her as someone she is clearly not. Very scary that so many adults were prepared to deny biology, reality and where happiness sat.
It got scarier to read the posts and see my own experience mirrored down to the music kids listening to, sites they visited, phrases and language they used to talk or evade to talk on the issues, sexual preferences, mental conditions, traumas and other life experiences.
People from all walks of life in the western Societies. We are not making thus up. It is odd that self-diagnosis of GD is not criticised when ROGD it is. Im not aware of research on self-diagnosis.
The bits about storytelling on the counterview is also quite revealing. Maybe looking at Todorov index will help the author to see that many heroes are originally outcasts and different characters that have to overcome obstacles until they understand their true self. Puberty is one of those journeys as research on teen brain development has shown. Most people feel at odds in one respect or other, managing and navigating discomfort is a way to grow up.
Self diagnosed GD is more likely to be far fetched than ROGD, however I'm prepare to concede they could be two sides of the same coin. Whichever way it needs to be halted and researched thoroughly before handing out hormones as candy and putting young people under life changing surgical interventions.