Tuesday, February 03, 2015

I Am Surprised At Fox News…

This study was published in a number of news sites but I found it most interesting to find it on Fox News
Transgender children aren’t confused about their gender identity, study finds
Published February 02, 2015

An ongoing longitudinal study of transgender children and their siblings has revealed that these youths have a strong understanding of their gender identity. The paper’s findings, published in the February edition of the journal Psychological Science, counter the belief that transgender children are confused about their gender or are too young to understand what gender means.

“We found that gender cognition in the transgender kids was indistinguishable from their non-transgender peers and siblings,” study author Nicholas Eaton, an assistant psychology professor at Stony Brook University in New York, said in a news release. “They appear exactly like their non-transgender peers [or] siblings, but in the direction of their gender identity, not their sex.”
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“Across all these tasks— across the more and the less controllable measures of gender development— our transgender participants look just like other kids, but in the direction of their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth,” Eaton said in the news release.
As I mentioned this story was published on many news sites but I was astonished to see that Fox didn’t cover it negatively. However, the comments are still what you would expect from Fox readers.

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