That sometimes shows up in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show that even 80 percent of children who act in that fashion will not persist in wanting to be the opposite gender at the time when puberty begins.
To se nekada javlja u prvom desetljeću života i može biti vrlo zbunjujuće za roditelje, jer je prilično uobičajeno kod djece da se poigravaju međuspolnim igrama i načinima i, zapravo, postoje studije koje pokazuju da čak 80% djece koja se ponašaju na taj način, neće biti uporni u nastojanju da budu suprotnog spola kada uđu u pubertet.