Some of us live with kids with ROGD. Their physicians acknowledge it as a phenonmenon.
ROGD is a description of something happening to teens, mostly but not only girls, in Western culture.
It describes a highly atypical presentation of gender dysphoria, post-puberty, with no history of childhood dysphoria. Diagnosis of dysphoria is preceded by exposure to trans identifying peers, and trans-promoting media. Austim is frequently co-morbid. Teens with ROGD move from non-dysphoric status to dysphoric status in a very short period of time.
ROGD is not well understood, partly because it is so new, and partly because TRA's want to prevent actual studies into this cohort.
No-one can say 'it's debunked' in good faith, because the literature isn't there, on this new cohort, to debunk it. It has only just been described. It has not yet been studied scientifically. There are no high quality research papers out there, on this cohort, to draw any conclusions from.
If TRA's would allow academinc freedom on this matter (as on the matter of detransitioners) then we could speak with more authority, one way or another, on ROGD kids.
At the moment, all the (very limited, descriptive literature) allows us to say is that 'Here is a new group of kids who did not have childhood gender dysphoria. Their developement of gender dysphoria occurs post-pubery and occurs rapidly, and is correlated with a number of factors, including autism and pre-existing mental health conditions. A model of social contagion is suggested. We don't know if we should treat these teens the same way we treat people with a childhood history of dysphoria. At the moment, treating them similarly is experimental.'
There's nothing remotely transphobic about the above, btw.