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I used the pronoun “she” since the study reports that she identified as a girl at the time it was conducted.
It is beyond the scope of this Letter to the Editor to respond to the critique, levied by some feminists, that gender transitioning itself perpetuates normative gender roles. Nonetheless, it should be noted that even gender conforming transgender people are perceived as threatening to traditional gender roles (Broussard & Warner, 2018).
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Ashley, F. Gender (De)Transitioning Before Puberty? A Response to Steensma and Cohen-Kettenis (2011). Arch Sex Behav 48, 679–680 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1328-y
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