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Study: Transgender Children Allowed to Live Openly Fare Well

Started by suzifrommd, February 26, 2016, 12:36:56 PM

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Study: Transgender Children Allowed to Live Openly Fare Well

By The Associated Press, Feb. 26, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/26/health/ap-us-med-transgender-children-well-being.html?_r=0

Young 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
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