To the Editor As Cavve et al note, there is a paucity of research looking at longer-term gender identity development in adolescents who have received hormonal interventions. This article, therefore, is extremely important. The authors are to be commended for their (successful) attempt to follow up the treatment courses for young people receiving hormonal interventions, and for their recognition that experiences of birth sex reidentification and treatment cessation exist and should be formally studied. Another laudable point they recognize is that gender identity trajectories can change over time, and that such change, including what the authors term reidentification with birth sex, is not necessarily a negative experience. The reidentification term may be a useful one to add to a growing lexicon that includes words like detransition and desistance, which, as noted by the authors, lack uniform definition.
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