Supporting Trans Youth Is Scientifically Good For Them
A new study has found that trans children who are raised by a young age as their preferred gender will “hit all the healthy development milestones,” ‘Advocate’ writes.
Selin Gülgöz, a researcher at the University of Washington, conducted a large study and stated that it was almost impossible to tell tans kids from cis.
“The most surprising finding is, overall, just how similar transgender and cisgender kids looked," Gülgöz said. "What this means is that, if I saw the data of any random participant, I would not be able to tell if that child is transgender or cisgender.”
The study witnessed the transition for 317 trans children, 189 of their siblings and 316 cisgender kids who served as a control group.
“This study does show that in fact not all trans girls (or cis girls) want to wear frilly pink dresses or play with dolls,” Gülgöz stressed. “We in fact see plenty of trans kids violating these stereotypes, just as we see cis kids do so.
“Enabling a child to choose freely toys, clothes, hairstyle, a name and pronoun, or even to present in the experienced gender outside the domestic environment does not 'cause' children to become transgender or later transsexual adults,” she said.
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