'I'm a proud mum to a transgender child' https://buff.ly/2UtTFz9 pic.twitter.com/hAz53V9nvc
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I literally believed I'd grow up into a girl at that age. I didn't have the language to explain how I felt, because nobody was educating kids on such issues even in my teens. I wish badly someone had told me just once.
I'm sorry to hear that, but the ancedotal shouldn't take priority over the facts. And it's a fact that most dysphoric kids, if subject to watchful waiting, outgrow their dysphoria. If I may add my ancedotal experiance, I was 100% sure transition was for me in my 20s. It wasn't.
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Except the data doesn't actually show that. The 80% desistence myth came about from a study looking at merely GNC youth who never expressed a full transgender identity with the "persistent, insistent and consistent" standard. Of course many were "just" gay.
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I don't know if the stats are as high as 80%, but multiple studies have found a majority desistence rate, with different numbers depending on their sample size. The 2013 Dutch study found that by age 15, 47 kids out of 127 persisted, 52 desisted, and 28 were lost to follow-up.
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