Gender identity as some sort of catch-all solution

ements of other women from around the world. It is promising to know that women, historically, have managed to accomplish so much, despite all odds stacked against us. I wish to hold on to those moments, and pass that strength on as a reminder to others like me. There is so much to feel proud about in being a woman!

With my film, too, my hope is to break this cycle of flight afflicting my sex and beseech young girls to stop hating womanhood itself. In India, a lot of Western pop culture is consumed so voraciously. Whenever we will observe a spike in the ROGD cases in India, through self-declaration via Twitter, of course, I bet the social media influencers and American TV shows will play a huge role. No doubt the errors, damages, and horrors are about to repeat themselves here, too – I hope to potentially mitigate said problems, at least to some extent, through this film.

Gender dysphoria – Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria – is, it seems, yet another of those solutions seized on by desperate and confused young girls as they navigate their way through puberty and adolescence in an increasingly sexualised world. Like anorexia – another drastic response to the same situation. In Ella Whelan's article, she looks back at the founding of the Tavistock Clinic by child and adolescent psychiatrist Domenico Di Ceglie, who proposed that gender dysphoria, rather than a problem, should be seen as a statement by the individual setting out their goal: ‘a process analogous to the development of a vocation, such as an early calling to the priesthood or an enduring and compulsive ambition to pursue particular professional roles’. If anorexia wasn't so clearly harmful, I imagine some smart child and adolescent psychiatrist would have proposed something similar to Tavistock's gender clinic, for drastic weight loss – an Anorexia Clinic, helping young girls on their vocation to lose weight until they reach their skeletal goal.

What's that you say? There already is the equivalent of an anorexia clinic? – the world of fashion. Yes yes, I know…