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Consistency of gender identity and preferences across time: An exploration among cisgender and transgender children.

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: = 128) from a mean age of 7.0 (range 3.0-10.9) to a mean age of 9.6 (range 5.1-12.0). Furthermore, 65.5% of the youth were girls, 69.7% were White, 72.8% grew up in households with an annual household income of $75,000 or more, and 89.9% of parents had a bachelor's degree or higher. Overall, we found a small-to-medium correlation over this 2.6-year span within each group, both across the composite of measures and most measures individually. Despite the moderate stability over time, we found a decrease in the composite and individual scores over this time span for girls and for transgender participants. Together these results suggested some stability in children's gender identity and preferences in middle childhood and that this was true regardless of whether the child's gender did or did not align with their sex assignment at birth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Developmental Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/dev0001419

Authors: Tabea Hässler, Jessica J. Glazier, Kristina R. Olson

Language: English

Topic: LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: The causal effect of empowering intergroup interventions among LGBTIQ* individuals on support for social change, G7214854068, G9000015041