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Cognitive Development in Transgender People
In the past decade there has been an increase in research into how transgender people fit into cognitive development theory. At the earliest, transgender children can begin to socially trasition during identity exploration, specifically during the preoperational stage. In 2015, KR Olson and collegues studied transgender youth, who identified as their preferred gender, in comparison to their siblings and unrelated cisgender children. The students participated in the IAT, a test that measures how one may identify based off a series of questions related to memory. Overall it determines a child's predeered gender prefrenced. It showed that the transgender children's results correated with their desired gender. The behaviors of the children also related back to their results. For instance, the trangender boys enjoyed food and activites typically assosiated and enjoyed by cisgender boys. The article reports that the researchers found that the children were not confused, deceptive, or oppositional of their gender identity, and responded with actions that are typically respresented by their gender identity.