When Richard Green and others first studied them in the 1970s and 1980s, no clinician believed their feelings actually made them members of the opposite sex, or dreamed of treating them with drugs or surgery. They simply sought to predict how those children would feel as adults. And every study pointed to the same conclusion: they were pretty likely to grow up gay, and very unlikely to still identify as or want to be members of the opposite sex. There was no such thing as a ‘trans child’ in the sense of one who could be identified as certain, or even highly likely, to grow up to be a trans
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