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ArticleThe British journal of developmental psychology2025

Gender identity importance in cisgender and gender diverse adolescents in the US and Canada.

Natalie M Wittlin, Natalie M Gallagher, Kristina R Olson

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Article in The British journal of developmental psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Stability and Change in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Across Childhood and Adolescence.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2025
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Natalie M WittlinDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0858-3576
Natalie M GallagherDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Kristina R OlsonDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Funding

Views of Gender in Early ChildhoodR01HD092347 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Kristina Olson · 2017 to 2026
$3.7M
Psychological consequences of medical transition in transgender youthF32MD017147 · NIMHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI WITTLIN, NATALIE · 2022 to 2023
$136k
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01HD092347NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD092347NIMHD NIH HHS F32 MD017147NIMHD NIH HHS F32MD017147
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transgender adolescents often categorize themselves in the same way that cisgender adolescents do-that is, as girls/women and boys/men. Potential differences in the extent to which these self-categorizations matter to transgender and cisgender adolescents, however, have yet to be explored, as has the relative importance transgender adolescents place on their gender compared to their transgender self-categorization. In the current study, we explored self-reported identity importance in a sample of 392 primarily White (70%) and multiracial/ethnic (20%) 12-18-year-old (M = 15.02) binary transgender (n = 130), binary cisgender (n = 236), and nonbinary (n = 26) adolescents in the United States and Canada. Results revealed that binary transgender adolescents considered their gender self-categorization to be more important to them than both binary cisgender and nonbinary adolescents did. Most binary transgender adolescents rated their gender self-categorization as maximally important to them. Additionally, transgender adolescents considered their gender self-categorization to be more important to them than their transgender self-categorization (that is, their identification with the label "transgender"). These findings demonstrate that the identities that are often denied to binary transgender adolescents may be the very identities that are most important to them. Results also suggest that gender diverse adolescents with different gender identities may differ in the importance they place on these identities.

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Gender IdentitySelf ConceptTransgender PersonsAdolescentCanadaChildFemaleHumansMaleUnited Statesadolescentscisgendergenderidentity importancenonbinarytransgender

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PMID38591552
PMCPMC11461692

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