TransgenderTrend is a UK-based organization that campaigns against transgender inclusion and gender-affirming healthcare for young people.
Twitter: @Transgendertrd
Website: transgendertrend.com
TransgenderTrend was one of the three websites used by Lisa Littman to recruit parents for her 2018 "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" study. The other two sites were:
This methodological choice — recruiting only from anti-trans parent forums — was a major reason Littman's paper was criticized and corrected. The parents surveyed were already primed to view their children's gender identity negatively.
Hilary Cass, author of the Cass Review, follows TransgenderTrend on Twitter. This raises questions about the independence of a review that was supposed to objectively evaluate gender identity services.
TransgenderTrend produces:
Followed by:
Connected to:
TransgenderTrend's role as both a ROGD recruitment site and a follow of the Cass Review author illustrates how the anti-trans network maintains connections between activist organizations, discredited research, and supposedly "independent" reviews.