From JC

Uh oh! The burgeoning billion-dollar neo-castration industry may have just had its walnuts lopped off. The Daily Mail UK ran the narrative-bashing story yesterday headlined, “Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes – as critics say it shows being trans is usually just a phase for kids.”

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The article reported on a February study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior titled, “Development of Gender Non-Contentedness During Adolescence and Early Adulthood – Archives of Sexual Behavior.” Over a span of 15 years, researchers in the Netherlands tracked about 3,000 11-year-old kids, roughly half male and half female.

Researchers found overall that 78% of subjects consistently reported the same positive feelings about their gender over the 15 years. Of the ones who were unhappy with their real gender, nearly all of them — around 19% of the total — eventually settled down and became content. Only about 2% of the subjects were less comfortable with their gender at the end of the study.

The researchers concluded that questioning one’s gender, or occasionally wondering about life on the other side of the gender fence, might just be a normal part of human development:

The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common.
We used to call them tomboys, and they were lots more fun to play with than the other girls. (We still couldn’t spar and wrestle with them, not the same way, because they always got hurt easier than boys. They were still fun to climb trees with, taunt neighborhood bullies, do dumb dares, and lots of other stuff together.) But nowadays, at the first sign of a young lady’s interest in boy stuff, her parents fretfully schedule an appointment with the family doctor to talk about intervention.

Thanks to these Netherlands researchers, the question now is: should doctors be required to inform parents of potentially transgender kids about this study, especially when talking about invasive interventions like puberty blockers and surgeries?

Or should we just let kids be kids?