Family Discussions of Early Childhood Social Transitions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

An increasing number of children are socially transitioning to live as their identified genders rather than their assigned sexes, yet little empirical work has examined the decision-making process surrounding social transitions. We aimed to understand (1) why parents and their gender nonconforming children do and do not consider social transitions and (2) whether families discuss social transitions both before and after initial social transitions.

Methods

Studies 1 and 2 involved telephone interviews of parents of socially transitioned transgender children (N=60) and gender nonconforming children who were not socially transitioned (N=60), respectively. Study 3 involved an online survey of 266 parents of socially transitioned transgender children.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Olson KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453930 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature