A new study in the journal Pediatrics is being propelled by the media as evidence that few children change their minds after socially transitioning.

The study followed roughly 300 children who had socially transitioned to live as the opposite sex. (Nonbinary and third genders were not as popular five years ago, when study data were first being collected, so these children had transitioned to live as either female or male.) At enrollment, they were between the ages of 3 and 12 years old, and approximately 12% had begun puberty blockade prior to beginning the study.