09-17-2011, 02:49 PM
Gender identification exists at age 7 or earlier. Are the parents projecting onto the child in this case? Please look at the case of, David Reimer, where the parents and professionals projected a female gender reassignment onto a male child from the age of 22 months. The child was never told of the circumstances that brought about his reassignment to female, or that he was born male. Somehow he knew his whole life that he was really a male even though he was raised female from age 22 months and looked to have female genitalia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer