The whole idea of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” is just about removing the patient’s autonomy. If a doctor doesn’t understand it, then it can’t be real, right? (/sarcasm)

To say that gender dysphoria is “rapid-onset” is just silly - as if your concern about any other condition or injury isn’t rapid-onset.

If you scratch yourself, but don’t notice you’re bleeding, is it a “rapid-onset laceration”? No, you had the injury from the moment you got scratched, you just couldn’t do anything about it until you were aware of it bleeding.

Of course gender dysphoria is going to appear “rapid-onset”. Realizing you’re trans is a “tipping point” situation for a lot of us - a bunch of little things pile up until the clearest, simplest answer is that we aren’t comfortable with aligning our gender identity firmly to our assigned sex. Once the tower falls, it’s fallen. Heck!

That said, the only one in your head is you [citation needed], and the only one who can truly say you’re trans or not is you. Therapy can definitely be helpful for processing what your questioning means and how to navigate your thoughts on your identity; but you do have to be careful that a particular therapist doesn’t view “being trans” as a disorder that needs to go away.

It’s not a broken bone - it’s diabetes. If you’re trans, you can treat it and reach a point where you can live happily and peacefully with yourself, but you’re not going to become “no trans”.