Family Discussions of Early Childhood Social Transitions

摘要

Objective: An increasing number of children are socially transitioning to live as their identified genders rather than their assigned sexes, yet little empirical work has examined the decision-making process surrounding social transitions. We aimed to understand (a) why parents and their gender-nonconforming children do and do not consider social transitions and (b) whether families discuss social transitions both before and after initial social transitions. Method: Studies 1 and 2 involved telephone interviews of parents of socially transitioned transgender children (N = 60) and gender-nonconforming children who were not socially transitioned (N = 60), respectively. Study 3 involved an online survey of 266 parents of socially transitioned transgender children.