Gender dysphoria, the currently used term, is now diagnosed only when such behaviour is distressing to the child. Some of the boys in the latter group had received a diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) based on behaviours such as playing with toys traditionally associated with girls, or wanting to wear female clothes or be called by a female name. The team also found that adults heard differences in the speech of boys who prefer male friends and traditionally “male” toys compared with boys who prefer friends of the opposite sex and toys culturally associated with girls.
