Boston Children’s Hospital Gender Psychologist Asserts Many Children Know They Are Transgender As Early as Seemingly from the Womb

A psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Gender Multispecialty Service (GeMS) states in a video titled “Caring for Young Transgender Kids” that many children know they are transgender “as early as seemingly from the womb.”

“A good portion of children do know as early as seemingly from the womb,” says Kerry McGregor, PsyD. in a Boston Children’s Hospital video from May 2021. “And they will usually express their gender identity as very young children, some as soon as they can talk. They may say phrases such as ‘I’m a girl,’ or ‘I’m a boy,’ or ‘I’m going to be a woman,’ ‘I’m going to be a mom.’”

“Kids know very, very early,” McGregor states, adding she sees children in the Boston Children’s Hospital GeMS clinic as young as 2 or 3 years old, and up to age 9.

She advises parents to be supportive of their very young children, who claim to have a gender that is incompatible with their biological sex, so they have “the space” to “explore their gender.”

In another Boston Children’s Hospital GeMS video from May 2021, Jeremi Carswell, M.D., director of GeMS, states some parents say “they knew from the minute they were born, practically” that their children were transgender…. (Excerpt from The Virginia Star)