Spike In Transgender Youth Treatment Shows Urgent Need: Expert

, which opened in 1998, has also seen major growth in the last few years — they saw about 20 children and teens in 2013, hospital spokesperson Leslie Dickson said, a number that's risen to 240 in 2018.

have found that even very young children usually understand their gender identity, whether it's the gender they were given at birth or not., an Ontario-based study she also worked on, which found that 80 per cent of transgender people said they knew they were trans by age 14. The change in public knowledge and perception around transgender identity has started to make it easier for trans youth to seek treatment, which accounts for the spike."But that doesn't mean there weren't the same number of trans kids earlier who needed to access" that kind of care," Bauer adds.

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