re: 6 Year-old Transgender

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One of my co-workers, who happens to be from India, asked the question, "If a six-year old is old enough to determine that they should undergo a sex change, is it not a reasonable next step to say that they are also old enough to determine whether or not to have sexual relations with an adult?"

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"a child is presented with two identical beakers containing the same amount of liquid. The child usually notes that the beakers do contain the same amount of liquid. When one of the beakers is poured into a taller and thinner container, children who are younger than seven or eight years old typically say that the two beakers no longer contain the same amount of liquid, and that the taller container holds the larger quantity (centration), without taking into consideration the fact that both beakers were previously noted to contain the same amount of liquid. Due to superficial changes, the child was unable to comprehend that the properties of the substances continued to remain the same (conservation)."

This is a famous concept from Piaget.... The kid shouldn't understand that water from 1 container poured into another is still the same amount of water, but the child can apparently deduce that they were born with the wrong genitals.