Predicting Early-Childhood Gender Transitions
Predicting Early-Childhood Gender Transitions
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797619830649
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Olson, Kristina R.
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作者：
Rae, James R.;Gulgoz, Selin;Olson, Kristina R.
越来越多性别不一致的儿童在进行社会性别转换，即改变代词称呼，以自己认同的性别生活。我们对一组性别不一致的儿童（n = 85）展开研究，并在大约两年后再次联系他们。重新联系时，其中36名儿童已经完成了社会性别转换。我们发现，性别不一致的儿童在初次测试时表现出的更强的跨性别认同和偏好，能够预测他们日后是否会进行社会性别转换。随后，我们将这些性别不一致的儿童与已经完成社会性别转换的跨性别儿童组（n = 84）以及性别认同一致的对照组儿童（n = 85）进行了比较。来自我们纵向研究队列中日后会进行性别转换的儿童，与跨性别儿童（已经完成社会性别转换的儿童）以及他们最终转换后所认同性别的对照组儿童极为相似。而不会继续进行性别转换的性别不一致儿童则与这些组有所不同。这些结果表明：（a）社会性别转换或许可以从性别认同和偏好中预测出来；（b）在社会性别转换前后，性别认同和偏好可能并无显著差异。
Increasing numbers of gender-nonconforming children are socially transitioning-changing pronouns to live as their identified genders. We studied a cohort of gender-nonconforming children (n = 85) and contacted them again approximately 2 years later. When recontacted, 36 of the children had socially transitioned. We found that stronger cross-sex identification and preferences expressed by gender-nonconforming children at initial testing predicted whether they later socially transitioned. We then compared the gender-nonconforming children with groups of transitioned transgender children (n = 84) and gender-conforming controls (n = 85). Children from our longitudinal cohort who would later transition were highly similar to transgender children (children who had already socially transitioned) and to control children of the gender to which they would eventually transition. Gender-nonconforming children who would not go on to transition were different from these groups. These results suggest that (a) social transitions may be predictable from gender identification and preferences and (b) gender identification and preferences may not meaningfully differ before and after social transitions.