A landmark new study finds that 97% of transgender youth continued to identify as trans and use their new pronouns after 5 years, writes jack_turban
In these old studies, roughly 80% of the children didn’t seem to be transgender at follow-up. However, that’s maybe not surprising, because most weren’t transgender to begin with. This has led to a lot of hand-wringing and confusion. We simply didn’t have good data to know how many prepubertal transgender children would continue to identify as transgender over time. That is, until this new study was published.The researchers followed 317 transgender kids who had socially transitioned .
For the 193 transgender children who had socially transitioned after age 6, only one had gone back to using the pronouns associated with their sex assigned at birth. The researchers did not find different rates of gender identity stability between transgender boys and transgender girls., it’s rare for them to later identify as cisgender. This study reaffirmed that.
the study. Thirty-seven had started puberty blockers prior to enrolling. That being said, the researchers also report findings for the kids who had not yet started puberty blockers, and the findings were quite similar. People should also keep in mind that we’re not 100% sure why the small number of kids who went back to using the pronouns of their sex assigned at birth did so. It’s possible that they still identify as transgender but have gone back into the closet due to external factors like. We know that temporary “de-transition” is a common experience among transgender adults. The researchers plan to continue to follow this cohort over time to see how things continue to evolve.
Another limitation is that most of the children in the study had transitioned some time prior to enrolling in the study . It’s possible that there’s more fluctuation during the early phases of a child undergoing a social transition. All of the kids in this study also had binary gender identities when entering the study. More research is needed to understand the gender identity trajectories and how to best support prepubertal non-binary youth.
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