Briefly discuss the development of gender identity during adolescence.
What will be an ideal response?
Adolescence is the period during which gender identity, one's sense of being male, female, or in some other gender category, undergoes substantial development. Most youth experience gender intensification, that is, further development and elaboration of the assigned gender in childhood. For a minority, it involves the development of a gender variant identity. There are several events or experiences in late childhood/early adolescence that may intensify concerns about one's gender, including the maturation of the sexual parts of the body associated with puberty, intensified cultural and peer pressure to conform to gender-role norms, and increased time spent in gendered social contexts. These may encourage the adolescent to explore the possibility that she or he is trans*.
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