I agree they will desist but the idea of being sex-attracted before puberty is lunacy. This is a case where the counterargument fails because it adopts the same bizarre ideas that undergird the original delusion. People who “knew at 9 years of age” that they were gay (or straight) are as deluded as people who “knew” at that age that they were trans. This “knowledge” is a backwards projection from their adult sexuality. Before puberty, I was “attracted” to Vivien Leigh. If I grew up and became a lesbian, I could use that as “proof that I knew”. But since I didn’t, the confirmation bias doesn’t kick in.
Let’s stop sexualizing kids. It’s perfectly fine to be gay (or straight) without “knowing” anything about it in infancy.
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The “if left alone” part of the Tweet misrepresents the situation. The people who participated in the study had been brought to a treatment center as kids during an era when the treatment norms for kids with gender dysphoria were the opposite of what they are today. The article is vague about what treatment the kids got but gives examples of treatments that encouraged biological boys to act more stereotypically masculine. “Leave them alone” is exactly the treatment I would advocate, but that’s not what the study participants experienced.
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Every child craves strict and clear boundaries of sexed behavior. Messing with them in the first place to achieve this sort of confusion in a child is the original “not leaving them alone”.
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More directly to your point, the question about sexual orientation was asked several years after the boys had been brought in for treatment, when they were about age 20.
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