Aren’t they too young to know?

[Anonymous]

Current studies on gender cognition indicate that a transgender child’s awareness of their gender is commensurate with that of non- transgender children. Though they may know that they feel themselves to be different than how others perceive them to be, a young child generally lacks the vocabulary to express this definitively at an early age. With no images of other children like themselves and with the awareness that this difference is unsettling to adults around them, a child may wait to disclose this information to parents for some time. Some children can express this as early as 2 years old, others do not. “Knowing” from an early age does not make a child any “more or less trans” than an individual who expresses at a later age.

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