If the gay child was the archetypally ghostly creature of the twentieth century, figuring the strangeness and impossible sexuality of delay in the child concept more broadly, then certainly the trans child was ghostly during that century too with reference to the developmental temporality of binary gender. That ghostliness was intensified by the problem of the desired separation of object choice from gender identity, the need to desexualize trans children in a way that ultimately made their existence in the twentieth century even less imaginable than it might have otherwise been.
