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Gender Transition on Children

Gender identity is much more than the outlook or outward appearance that defines an

individual either as a male or female. Gender identity has been a topic of deliberation among

sociologists, psychologists among other scholars as they try to craft theories that gives a perfect

and all-inclusive definition of gender identity. The simple definition of gender as either male or

female has been disregarded by these scholars as it doesn’t define those that neither fit in either

of above-mentioned category (male or female). Children are born differently and as they grow;

they tend to exhibit behavioral characteristics that makes them be identified as of male or female

gender regardless of birth gender. For instance, there are several cases where children born male,

exhibit behaviors that were conventionally attributed to ladies and young girls also possess

attributes or behaviors that were perceived to be of boys (Rae et al. 2019). The process where

individuals change how people treat and perceive her based on his/her sexual being to become

the gender of they feel from inside is referred to gender transition. Therefore, this documentation

presents a literature review on the gender nonconformity among school going children and

derive as substantive conclusion from empirical research on gender transition.

In reference to Rae et al (2019), they established that in every classroom, there are high

chances of finding a pool of pupils or children who defies the conventional gender rules or

norms, for example finding young girls who love engaging on rough-and-tumble games and boys

who are obsessed with pink. In a typical traditional society, roles and responsibilities were

assigned based on one’s sex or ‘gender’. For example, taking a case in black American society,

boys were trained to be strong to defend the family at all time while ladies were trained to take

care of the family through house chores. With increased campaign on gender equality, these

norms have changed and now there are ladies who execute roles that were perceived to be of

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muscular gender (male). Sandberg et al (2012) also reiterated that gender transition begins at

early childhood stage when children consistently exhibits preference to the opposite sex, for

example children starts to love clothing and toys that are culturally attributed with opposite sex

(Rae et al. 2019). These behaviors develop as child grows up to a point that they outwardly

express their desires to be of the opposite gender group.

In the event that a child is not comfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth,

they can transit to the other gender that makes them feel comfortable and such kids are referred

as transgender. In the world of psychologists, allowing children to express themselves in a

gender they feel true to have significant impact on their self-esteem and given them true identity.

In another research by Singh, (2012) and Steensma (2013) revealed that children who

transgender during adolescent and adulthood development stages exhibit extreme childhood

gender nonconformity as compared to kids who transgendered at early age. Most of the

population in these two research studies had not undergo complete social transition as compared

to prepubescent kids.

According to Rae at al. (2019), all gender nonconform kids who took part in the research

that lasted for three and a half years (between 2013 July and December 2016) had expressed

signs of gender transition. The population sample was defined by the population recruited during

the study period rather than a target sample size population. The majority were transgender kids

while the nonconforming gender ware the minority since they are rare and hard-to-reach. Social

transition emerged as the major transition method by which most transgender kids identify

themselves within the gender, they feel comfortable (a girl identified by the pronoun ‘he’). Study

also noted that with time, socially transgendered children developed the need to change their

names, especially the first name to make them completely fit within the gender they have chosen.

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The statistical aspect of Rae et al. (2019) research was based on five gender development

measures that were thoughtfully selected based on battery of measures availed to all kids.

Composite gender development measures utilized include; peer preference, where participants

were given liberty to choose on which gender, they would prefer for friends, outfit and toy

preference measure, similarity measure and identity measure. The response obtained in regard to

five measures were recorded in a scale of 0 to 1 and result recorded on the identity and

preference score card. The survey was conducted on multi demographic facet such as assigned

sex (male or female), age (month), race (white, non-white) and period between testing and

follow-up

In conclusion, social transition among children is greatly influenced by preference ad

gender identity. Children who have high preference to opposite gender have high chances of

undergoing complete social transition, for instance changing their first name to conform with the

gender of preference. There is non clear difference between transgender kids, controls and future

transitioners in terms of gender preference and identity. The analysis uses gender preference and

identity extracted from five development measures; clothing, peer and toy preferences, gender

identity and similarity in order to have an elaborate conclusion of the research study.

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References

Rae, J. R., Gülgöz, S., Durwood, L., DeMeules, M., Lowe, R., Lindquist, G., & Olson, K. R.

(2019). Predicting early-childhood gender transitions. Psychological Science, 30(5), 669-

681.

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