“I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents
Little is known about gender expression among children with transgender parents. In the United States, we surveyed 64 nonbinary or binary transgender parents of children aged 18 to 71 months. Most parents reported a marginalized sexual identity and a White racial identity. Many declined to label the...
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| description | Little is known about gender expression among children with transgender parents. In the United States, we surveyed 64 nonbinary or binary transgender parents of children aged 18 to 71 months. Most parents reported a marginalized sexual identity and a White racial identity. Many declined to label their child’s gender identity, and this was particularly true among those with younger children. Scores indicated that, on average, children’s play was conventionally gendered. However, scores indicated significantly more gender-expansive play in the present sample than in normed samples, particularly among children assigned male at birth. Findings support transfamily theory (McGuire et al., 2016) and illustrate differences among families with nonbinary and binary transgender parents. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cca4c1d9f949413fb355eef72fd792482022-12-22T04:02:32ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-08-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.916088916088“I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender ParentsRachel G. Riskind0Samantha L. Tornello1Department of Psychology, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, United StatesDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United StatesLittle is known about gender expression among children with transgender parents. In the United States, we surveyed 64 nonbinary or binary transgender parents of children aged 18 to 71 months. Most parents reported a marginalized sexual identity and a White racial identity. Many declined to label their child’s gender identity, and this was particularly true among those with younger children. Scores indicated that, on average, children’s play was conventionally gendered. However, scores indicated significantly more gender-expansive play in the present sample than in normed samples, particularly among children assigned male at birth. Findings support transfamily theory (McGuire et al., 2016) and illustrate differences among families with nonbinary and binary transgender parents.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.916088/fulltransgender parentsnonbinary parentschild gender expressiongender identity labelstransfamily theory |
| spellingShingle | Rachel G. Riskind Samantha L. Tornello “I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents Frontiers in Psychology transgender parents nonbinary parents child gender expression gender identity labels transfamily theory |
| title | “I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents |
| title_full | “I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents |
| title_fullStr | “I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents |
| title_full_unstemmed | “I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents |
| title_short | “I Think It’s Too Early to Know”: Gender Identity Labels and Gender Expression of Young Children With Nonbinary or Binary Transgender Parents |
| title_sort | i think it s too early to know gender identity labels and gender expression of young children with nonbinary or binary transgender parents |
| topic | transgender parents nonbinary parents child gender expression gender identity labels transfamily theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.916088/full |
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