Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever Study on Transgender Children—Here's What They Found

Trans children who live as the gender they identify with act and develop similarly to their cisgender counterparts, according to a new study.
In the largest ever study of transgender children, scientists recruited 317 3 to 12-year-old transgender children, 189 of their siblings, and 316 cisgender kids who acted as controls. The transgender participants had socially transitioned, meaning they were living as the gender they identify with rather than what they were assigned at birth. For instance, a child with a penis assigned a boy at birth who has come out as and is living as a girl.
To conduct the study, the researchers met families across North America, study co-author Selin Gülgöz, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, told Newsweek. They spoke to children and parents about the former's gender identity. That included showing kids toys and asking which ones they preferred, and quizzing them on how similar they felt to boys or girls. The cisgender control group followed the same steps.

Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever Study on Transgender Children—Here's What They Found Children-kids-rain-stock-getty

Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever Study on Transgender Children—Here's What They Found Children-kids-rain-stock-getty

https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-kids-living-identity-develop-cis-children-1471729

Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever Study on Transgender Children—Here's What They Found

Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever Study on Transgender Children—Here's What They Found

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