The majority of children who express dissatisfaction with gender will grow out of those feelings, major new research shows

Most children who are unhappy with their gender will outgrow the feeling, according to a major study.

It found that one in ten 11-year-olds were unhappy with their birth gender, but for most, this uncertainty had disappeared by the time they reached their mid-20s.

Researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands followed the lives of 2,772 young people and assessed them at ages 11, 13, 16, 19, 22 and 25.

Retired consultant pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, author of The Cass Review report on NHS children’s services published last week

They were asked how much they agreed or disagreed with the statement: ‘I want to be of the opposite sex.’

At age 11, the start of the study, 11 percent of participants were dissatisfied with their birth gender.

This figure dropped at each assessment until, at age 25, it was just 4 per cent.

The Tavistock Centre, where children were placed on hormone drugs that should not have been given to them

The findings, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, raise serious questions about the approach advocated by trans activists to simply ‘affirm’ children who identify as the opposite sex and allow them to take puberty-blocking drugs.

They also back the conclusions of the scathing Cass report into NHS children’s gender services, published last week – that for most young people ‘a medical pathway will not be the best way to deal with gender-related distress’.

Stephanie Davies-Arai, of the gender-critical charity Transgender Trend, last night said the results were a ‘victory for common sense’.