Marit Rønstad is a Norwegian educator and anti-transgender activist. Rønstad is affiliated with anti-trans groups Genspect and Gender Identity Challenge (GENID).
Background
Marit Rønstad is an art teacher based in Oppaker, Norway who began teaching in the 1990s, most recently with teenagers in public school.
Anti-transgender activism
Rønstad worked with unaccepting parent Avi Ring, psychologist Marit Johanne Bruset, toxicologist Karin Svens, and other anti-trans activists through GENID:
Gender Identity Challenge Scandinavia (Genid), a parents’ group set up by Ring, a retired professor of neurophysiology, the Swedish toxicologist Karin Svens and the Norwegian teacher Marit Rønstad, for the change in the debate, contrasting these “so-called concerned parents”, some of whom he points out have adult transgender children who should be allowed to speak and decide for themselves, with “real parents” who affirm their children’s chosen identities. Svens was the only Swedish parent to speak openly on Uppdrag Granskning about how her trans son announced he was a boy when he was 17, started going to Karolinska’s adult clinic when he turned 18, and now identifies as male.
Orange (2020)
References
Orange, Richard (February 22, 2020). Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500%. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/22/ssweden-teenage-transgender-row-dysphoria-diagnoses-soar
Rønstad, Marit (September 12, 2019). Sexologer kan ha makt over barns identitetsutvikling. Sykepleien https://sykepleien.no/meninger/innspill/2019/12/sexologer-kan-ha-makt-over-barns-identitetsutvikling
Resources
GENID (genderchallenge.no)