Is social gender transition associated with mental health status in children and adolescents with gender dysphoria?

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Young people who experience gender dysphoria are variously referred to as "gender variant" (Riley et_al, 2011; Wong et_al, 2019), "transgender" (Durwood et_al, 2017; Olson et_al, 2016), "cross-gender identified" (Kuvalanka et_al, 2017), and "gender dysphoric" (Wallien and amp; CohenKettenis, 2008)-although these respective terms can imply important sample differences in some instances. Collectively, these findings have been interpreted to suggest that affirming a gender variant child/adolescents` gender identity via social transition will reduce psychological difficulties often observed within gender variant populations (de Graaf et_al, 2018; de Vries et_al, 2016; Ehrensaft et_al, 2018). The . . .

 



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