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   > Anyone advocating this horrible butchery of children should be   
   > summarily executed.   
      
   Gender dysphoria (GD) in childhood is a complex phenomenon characterized   
   by clinically significant distress due to the incongruence between   
   assigned gender at birth and experienced gender. The clinical   
   presentation of children who present with gender identity issues can be   
   highly variable; the psychosexual development and future psychosexual   
   outcome can be unclear, and consensus about the best clinical practice   
   is currently under debate.   
      
   In this paper a clinical picture is provided of children who are   
   referred to gender identity clinics. The clinical criteria are described   
   including what is known about the prevalence of childhood GD. In   
   addition, an overview is presented of the literature on the   
   psychological functioning of children with GD, the current knowledge on   
   the psychosexual development and factors associated with the persistence   
   of GD, and explanatory models for psychopathology in children with GD   
   together with other co-existing problems that are characteristic for   
   children referred for their gender. In light of this, currently used   
   treatment and counselling approaches are summarized and discussed,   
   including the integration of the literature detailed above.   
      
   "80% of individuals who begin seeking out clinical care for their gender   
   dysphoria, will ultimately lose their desire to identify with a sex   
   other than the one which was assigned to them at birth."   
      
   Keywords: Gender identitygender dysphoriachildhoodpsychosexual   
   developmentpersistencetreatment   
      
   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09540261.2015.1115754?journal   
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