Study: Transgender Children Allowed to Live Openly Fare WellBy The Associated Press, Feb. 26, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/26/health/ap-us-med-transgender-children-well-being.html?_r=0Young transgender children allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small study that suggests parental support may be the key.
Rates of depression and anxiety were equal in the study, which compared 73 transgender kids aged 3 to 12 with 73 nontransgender youngsters. The trans kids also fared as well on both measures as a group of their nontransgender siblings.
Rates of anxiety among trans kids were "a smidge higher" than national averages for children of the same age, but otherwise they matched national norms
