A study examining the gender identities of cis and trans children over an 11-year period has found that both groups are equally consistent in how they identify. The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)worked with over 900 youth in North America from 2013 to 2024. The subjects initially fell into three categories when recruited for the study: trans youth who socially transitioned with family support by 12 years old; cisgender youth who were age- and gender-matched to the trans group; and cisgender siblings of those in the trans group. Related Hospitals are ending their trans youth programs at an accelerating rate The study followed youth from an average of 8.1 years old through an average of 14.3 years old and concluded that among early-transitioning transgender children as well as their counterparts who were cisgender in childhood, stability in gender identity was by far the modal trajectory.According to youth and parent-report, most youths current identities are the same as those they held at the beginning of the study, the authors explained, adding that to the extent that youths identities did change, gender change was no more or less likely in any of therecruitment groupscompared to the others. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today In other words, socially transitioned transgender youths were no more or less likely to show gender change throughout childhood and adolescence than youths who are cisgender in childhood.The study found that over 80% of youth showed stability in their identities throughout the study. It also found that when subjects did experience a gender change, When gender change did occur in all three groups, it overwhelmingly involved change to (and, to a lesser extent, from) a nonbinary gender identity.There was also no evidence that young people were less or more likely to change their identity at any specific age. The study also emphasized the importance of family support. Early identifying transgender childrens sense of their own gender was no more or less stable than cisgender childrens, the study concluded, suggesting that children who are supported in their transgender identities tend to show developmental patterns that mirror their cisgender peers.The findings mirror what has overwhelmingly been found in studies on trans adults, that very few people detransition and those that do often do so due to anti-trans discrimination rather than an identity change. Most recently, the U.S. Trans Survey, considered to be the most extensive survey conducted on trans health in America, reaffirmed this fact. Released byAdvocates For Trans Equality(A4TE) on June 11, the survey questioned over 84,000 trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people aged 18 and older in 2022. Of all respondents, 9% had detransitioned at some point in their lives.Social and structural explanations dominated the reasons why respondents reported going back to living in their sex assigned at birth at some point, the report reads.Only 4% of people who went back to living in their sex assigned at birth for a while cited that their reason was because they realized that gender transition was not for them. When considering all respondents who had transitioned, this number equates to only 0.36%. On top of that, 98% of respondents said they felt more satisfied with their lives since transitioning.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.