Thu Nov 10, 2022 – 2:49 pm EST
(Alpha News) — A pediatrician who works as director of the “gender health program” at Minnesota’s largest children’s hospital believes kids as young as three-years-old can claim a “transgender identity.”
A two-minute clip from Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd’s 16-minute TED talk from September 2020 recently went viral. In the clip, Goepferd claims children have the ability to determine the “truth about their identities” around the time they start talking, even if it “doesn’t line up with other people’s expectations.”
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“It shouldn’t surprise you then that some transgender kids are claiming their identities as young as three and four years old. They know the categories. They know how they should feel inside based on their anatomy, and they also know the way that they see themselves doesn’t line up with other people’s expectations,” Goepferd said. “From as young as some kids can talk, they’re explaining to their parents the truth about their identities.”
Goepferd, who serves in multiple roles at the Children’s Minnesota Hospital, then described how she has “tried to expand [the] gender categories” of her three young children.
“So instead of saying to them, ‘These are
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