Skyler Burns

[andyg0404]

Hi,

Another article on a child with gender dysphoria from the German site.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733010/Skyler-Burns-six-wears-gingham-uniform-dress-prep-school-turns-boy.html

Andy G.

[samantha1]

Judging from this story of boy turns girl,this one does look like she was in the one body,and now she is happy,hopefully this is not just a phase that this person is going through,and as a psychiatric nurse ,i have seem many going through the change of re assignment

[transboy]

Samatha, I also hope its not a phase. Below is an interesting study on gender dysphoria. Only 25 children were interviewed but was still considered a qualitative analysis.

Desisting and persisting gender dysphoria after childhood: A qualitative follow-up study
Summary: Study of a group of children with gender dysphoria. The authors interviewed them as teenagers when some of them had lost their gender dysphoria and some of them had not. Most children diagnosed with gender dysphoria do not go on to transition; their gender dysphoria goes away. Gender dysphoria faded at puberty for 84% of the children in previous follow-up studies.

Twenty five adolescents (M age 15.88, range 14-18), diagnosed with a Gender Identity Disorder (DSM-IV or DSM-IV-TR) in childhood, participated in this study. Data were collected by means of biographical interviews. Adolescents with persisting gender dysphoria (persisters) and those in whom the gender dysphoria remitted (desisters) indicated that they considered the period between 10 and 13 years of age to be crucial. They reported that in this period they became increasingly aware of the persistence or desistence of their childhood gender dysphoria. Both persisters and desisters stated that the changes in their social environment, the anticipated and actual feminization or masculinization of their bodies, and the first experiences of falling in love and sexual attraction had influenced their gender related interests and behaviour, feelings of gender discomfort and gender identification. Although, both persisters and desisters reported a desire to be the other gender during childhood years, the underlying motives of their desire seemed to be different.

The studies the authors cite followed a total of 246 children; only 39 of them had gender dysphoria after puberty, thus the overall persistence rate for the dysphoria was 16%. The persistence rate varied among the different studies from 2% to 27% (i.e. 73%-98% of the children stopped having gender dysphoria).