Gender Cognition in Transgender Children
Gender Cognition in Transgender Children
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797614568156
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Eaton, Nicholas R.
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作者：
Olson, Kristina R.;Key, Aidan C.;Eaton, Nicholas R.
在北美，越来越多的跨性别儿童根据他们表达的性别而不是出生时的性别生活，但科学研究在很大程度上忽视了这一群体。在目前的研究中，我们采用了社会认知研究的方法论进展来调查5到12岁的青春期前跨性别儿童(N=32)，他们在日常生活中根据自己的性别认同来呈现自己，是表现出与他们所表达的性别或他们的出生性别更一致的性别认知模式，还是表现出对他们的性别认同的困惑。使用内隐和外显的测量方法，我们发现变性人儿童表现出一个明显的模式：他们根据自己表达的性别来看待自己，并表现出对自己表达的性别的偏好，反应模式反映了两个顺性(非变性人)对照组的反应模式。这些结果证明，在发育早期，变性人青年与具有相同性别认同的顺性儿童在统计上是无法区分的。
A visible and growing cohort of transgender children in North America live according to their expressed gender rather than their natal sex, yet scientific research has largely ignored this population. In the current study, we adopted methodological advances from social-cognition research to investigate whether 5- to 12-year-old prepubescent transgender children (N = 32), who were presenting themselves according to their gender identity in everyday life, showed patterns of gender cognition more consistent with their expressed gender or their natal sex, or instead appeared to be confused about their gender identity. Using implicit and explicit measures, we found that transgender children showed a clear pattern: They viewed themselves in terms of their expressed gender and showed preferences for their expressed gender, with response patterns mirroring those of two cisgender (nontransgender) control groups. These results provide evidence that, early in development, transgender youth are statistically indistinguishable from cisgender children of the same gender identity.