Gender dysphoria
Management
The question of whether to counsel young children to be happy with their assigned sex, or to encourage them to continue to exhibit behaviors that do not match their assigned sex—or to explore a transgender transition—is controversial. The follow-up studies of children with gender dysphoria consistently show that the majority cease to feel transgender during puberty and identify instead as gay or lesbian. Others clinicians also report that a significant proportion of young children diagnosed with gender dysphoria later do not exhibit any dysphoria.
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