15-Year Study Concludes Most Gender-Confused Children Grow Out of It
- 11 percent of adolescents reported being unhappy with their gender
- 19 percent who reported unhappiness as kids no longer expressed it as adults
The majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling by the time they are fully grown adults, according to a long-term study.
Researchers in the Netherlands tracked more than 2,700 children from age 11 to their mid-twenties, asking them every three years of feelings about their gender.
Results showed at the start of the research, around one-in-10 children (11 percent) expressed 'gender non-contentedness' to varying degrees.