Developmental Psychology · 2022 · 31 citations · 29 references
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= 128) from a mean age of 7.0 (range 3.0-10.9) to a mean age of 9.6 (range 5.1-12.0). Furthermore, 65.5% of the youth were girls, 69.7% were White, 72.8% grew up in households with an annual household income of $75,000 or more, and 89.9% of parents had a bachelor's degree or higher. Overall, we found a small-to-medium correlation over this 2.6-year span within each group, both across the composite of measures and most measures individually. Despite the moderate stability over time, we found a decrease in the composite and individual scores over this time span for girls and for transgender participants. Together these results suggested some stability in children's gender identity and preferences in middle childhood and that this was true regardless of whether the child's gender did or did not align with their sex assignment at birth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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Gender Labels and Early Sex Role Development
Spencer K. Thompson · Child Development · 1975 · 248 citations
Gender Cognition in Transgender Children
Kristina R. Olson, Aidan Key, Nicholas R. Eaton · Psychological Science · 2015 · 238 citations