Five years later, 94% of kids are still living as transgender
The Trans Youth Project looked at the so-called social transition between the ages of three and 12, with participants transitioning on average at age six and a half. Data was reported by parents and youth, either through in-person or online visits, or via email or phone correspondence.
The study looked at the gender identities of youth who transitioned, five years on.
The data, taken from 317 children across the US and Canada, finds that just 2.5% of transgender kids detransition to being cisgender. A further 3.5% of children retransition from identifying as binary transgender to nonbinary.
The data revealed that most youth, 94%, were living as binary transgender. There was also a small proportion of people, 1.3%, who retransitioned initially to cisgender or nonbinary – then switched back to binary trans identities.
Only 2.5% of kids actually went through detransition
A small group were now living as cisgender, at 2.5% of the participant sample.
They found that the children most likely to live as cisgender were those who experienced an initial social transition before the age of six, with retransition happening before the age of ten.
The research found that 2.5% of transgender kids go through detransition, while the majority of young people keep their gender identity
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