title: Free to Be You and Me: Normal Gender-Role Fluidity--Commentary on Diane Ehrensaft's "Listening and Learning from Gender-Nonconforming Children".
abstract: This paper suggests that gender role fluidity is a normal self state throughout development. It discusses the nonlinear progression of gender role identity that is constantly fluid and reactive to biological, environmental, and psychological changes. Given the normal fluidity of gender role identity, it argues that giving puberty blockers to young children is against the best interests of the child's development.
authors.forename: Rona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male