The Irish Times - Saturday, December 10, 2011
Born in the wrong body: how gender-identity issues affect children

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1210/1224308848909.html

AN IRISH ORGANISATION dealing with gender-identity issues has seen a sudden rise in the number of families wanting to talk about transgender children. An increasing number of Irish parents of children with gender-identity issues are coming out on behalf of their kids.

Over the past two months, Transgender Equality Network Ireland has fielded calls from parents of transgender children, or from children who express gender-identity issues. They may be boys who see themselves as girls, or vice versa, or may be experiencing uncertainty about, or discomfort with, their physical gender.

i think this is a worldwide phenomena due in part to the fact that the medical community has recognized the biological underpinnings of GID, and have taken the steps to protect the Innocent children. The American Academy of Pediatric does endorse the "children right to a gender identity."