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Date Posted: 09:41:18 01/13/26 Tue
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Hello, Curious!
You asked me a question which I didn’t know the answer to,
so I had to do some digging.
Thank you for the challenge.
Here is what I learned:
----Nudity might be able to prevent transgender development by enhancing the child’s body self-concept.
I found two cases (transport system 2023, yunghotmilf 2023) in which a transgender child hated his own penis beginning in preschool years.
I realize that this is hardly statistically significant. But it is enough to hypothesize that a negative body self-concept plays a role in transgender development.
The body self-concepts of the boys whose families attended nudist camps was higher than that of boys who whose families practiced nudism at home only, which in turn was higher than that of boys whose families did not practice nudism at all.
----Gender identity begins early, so transgender development should be intervened early.
According to a stage theory put forth by Kohlberg (1966), a child identifies with his or her own gender and that of others between the ages of 2 and 3. This is the “gender identity” or “labeling” stage.
Between the ages of 3 and 5, the child understands that gender remains stable over time. In other words, a boy will grow up to be a man and a girl will grow up to be a woman. This is the “gender stability” stage.
Between the ages of 5 and 7, the child realizes that gender-associated clothing or gender-associated activities will not reverse a person’s gender. This is the “gender consistency” stage.
Many researchers have run validation studies and found that Kohlberg was right.
These findings don’t always apply to transgender children, however. Fast & Olson (2018) found that transgender children tended to goof up when it comes to gender stability. They report:
“Children in the transgender group tended to say that their gender as a baby was different than their current gender, but that their gender as an adult would be the same as their current gender.”
If I understand that right, a transgender boy thinks he was born as a boy, he has changed into a girl, and will become a woman.
Also:
“Transgender children and their siblings were less likely than cisgender children to believe that everyone’s gender was stable. And they occasionally indicated that someone’s gender could change between childhood and adulthood.”
Notice the tendency of siblings of transgender children to think like transgender children. Could this be because of heredity or environment?
----Nudity might be able to prevent transgender development by simplifying the child’s gender identity development.
In the yunghotmilf (2023) case, the mother reports that “many people misgender him thinking he’s a girl (like nearly 100% of the time).”
The child was 4 years old at the time, so there was plenty of time for people to tell him what “pretty little girl” he was.
We are living in an era of unisex clothes and unisex hairdo’s, but we are not living in an era of unisex genitalia. If yunghotmilf lived in a society where boy nudity was mandated, as I claim that it should, those same people might have told him what a “fine young man” he was.
----Boys might accept the proposal more readily than you think.
You name any costume which is associated with boys, and boys will accept it. You name any costume which is associated with girls, and boys will reject it.
Bible story illustrations look funny to a lot of boys. The men and boys in Biblical times wore robes, and robes look like dresses.
US history book illustrations look funny to a lot of boys. Men in the 18th Century wore ruffles, and ruffles are commonly associated with women.
In fact, masculinity is more important than modesty. If this is not clear, let’s give a boy a choice between masculinity and immodesty on one hand and being effeminacy and modesty on the other hand. For the first option, he can wear a topless boys’ swimsuit, thereby showing his shameful boobies. For the second option, he can wear a girls’ one-piece swimsuit, thereby covering up those shameful boobies. He will most likely take the first option.
But let’s up the dosage. on the immodesty by asking for total nudity. Will his priorities still stand? You bet they will! Like I say, you name any costume which is associated with boys, and boys will accept it. And that applies if the costume is total nudity.
Danny (2018, Voy 223876) recalls his days as a skinny dipper. He saw many newcomers arrive on the scene, hesitate to undress, and have his underwear yanked down by his older sister. The boys and the girls joined in teasing the newcomer. “What have you got to hide?” “You are a boy, not a girl,”
----It’s not all nurture, there is a little bit of nature.
It pains me to write this, because I love nothing more than to advance my own pet theories. But for the sake of honesty, I have to admit that there have been a few cases in which transgender identity resulted from a prenatal hormonal imbalance (Boucher & Chinnah 2020).
This isn’t very probable, but some day I might get the Spelvin Bill passed through both houses and over the President’s desk—after getting Title IX repealed, of course.
Then once every boy is ready to cast off his diapers, he will run out of the house and show his magnificent icon to the whole community. He will frolic with all the other children, with and without magnificent icons. He will see icons like his own. He will see icons unlike his own—hairy and smooth, circumcized and uncircumcized, erect and flaccid, red and yellow, black and white.
Can such a glorious experience override the harm from any prenatal hormone imbalance?
I hope so.
Boucher, F. J. O. & Chinnah, T. I. 2020. Gender dysphoria: A review investigating the relationship between genetic influences and brain development. Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics 11:89–99. https://www.dovepress.com/gender-dysphoria-a-review-investigating-the-relationship-between-genet-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-AHMT
Fast, A. A. & Olson, K. R. 2018. Study of transgender preschoolers assesses preferences and identity. Child Development 89: 620-637. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12758
Kohlberg, l. 1966. A cognitive developmental analysis of children's sex role concepts and attitudes. In Maccoby, E, E., ed. The development of sex differences. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press: 82-173.
Story, M. D. 1979. Factors associated with more positive body self-concepts in preschool children. Journal of Social Psychology 108, 1: 49-56.
transport system. 2023. [untitled message].
https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/14ayy2n/my_son_dislikes_his_penis_and_says_hes_a_girl/
yunghotmilf. 2023. My son dislikes his penis and says he’s a girl.
https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/14ayy2n/my_son_dislikes_his_penis_and_says_hes_a_girl/
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