Transgender Kids Show Consistent Gender Identity Across Measures

[stephaniec]

Transgender Kids Show Consistent Gender Identity Across Measures

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/transgender-kids-show-consistent-gender-identity-across-measures.html 🔗

Psychological Science/01/29/2015

"A study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, indicates that the gender identity of these children is deeply held and is not the result of confusion about gender identity or pretense. The study, led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, is one of the first to explore gender identity in transgender children using implicit measures that operate outside conscious awareness and are, therefore, less susceptible to modification than self-report measures."

[suzifrommd]

Mixed feelings here.

On the one hand, I agree with the findings.

On the other hand, I'm terrified when the scientific community starts coming out with "objective measures" of our gender identity.

[Dee Marshall]

^This!^ As long as we aren't subjected to "one true wayism" again then having proof is good, but "poets, priests, and politicians" have a way of dumbing down science to support their own pet beliefs.