(Reuters Health) – Transgender children may start to identify with toys and clothes typical of their gender identity from a very young age, a recent study suggests. And their confidence in their gender identity is generally as strong as that of cisgender children, whose identity matches their sex assigned at birth, researchers found. The transgender kids showed strong preferences for toys and clothing typically associated with their gender identity, not their assigned sex, the study found. Researchers traveled across the U.S. and Canada to meet transgender children and their parents at home or in their communities. One limitation of the study is that all the transgender kids lived in families that affirmed their current gender identity, the study team notes.

Source: National Post December 25, 2019 19:41 UTC