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Just my experience: My wife worked in contact with a child that, years later, happend to be one of the earliest officialy recognized trangender of the country a
by ogig 11y ago
Just my experience: My wife worked in contact with a child that, years later, happend to be one of the earliest officialy recognized trangender of the country at the age of nine.
My wife realized this child was a transgender, very probably earlier than their parents. She saw it clearly in the behaviour, preferences, movements. Is not that someone asked the child about it, but that the child acts and strongly feels so.
- angersock 11y agoIt seems very odd to have any notion of real gender issues until you've at least gone through puberty and have actually developed the sexual characteristics of your biological sex. I'm admittedly skeptical about a 9 year old being trans.
- aninhumer 11y agoI'm very much inclined to consider anecdotes like this as simply hindsight and confirmation bias. They most likely had a slight suspicion, which has been amplified in their memory. They may also have had similar suspicions about other children, which have been forgotten after they came to nothing.