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Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever study on Transgender Children — Here is What They Have Found

Author:     KASHMIRA GANDER
Source:     Newsweek
Publication Date:     11/18/19 AT 3:00 PM EST
 Link: Scientists Have Carried Out the Biggest Ever study on Transgender Children — Here is What They Have Found
Stephan:   I find the hysteria over sexuality in the United States quite sad, and very harmful. Start with this, your eternal self, soul in religious terms, has no gender. The reincarnation research shows that one life may be as a male, another as a female. Discarnate personalities don't have penises or vaginas. Thus, I am glad to see some actual research, as opposed to the usual religious and moral nonsense, on the life and health, both mental and physical, of transgender children.

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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.

“The most surprising finding is, overall, […]

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