Transcript: My Secret Self

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Reporter: Barbara Walters
Producers: Alan B. Goldberg, Joneil Adriano

Physically, it’s obvious what we are from the moment we’re born.

We’re either a boy or a girl. And for the vast majority of us, that’s the way it stays.

But for some children, toddlers even, it’s not so simple. They insist they were born with the wrong bodies. Little boys, absolutely convinced they should be girls.

Little girls, who wouldn’t wear a frilly party frock if you paid them.

They’ve been diagnosed with GID ? Gender Identity Disorder ? and on Sunday night some of them and their parents tell their touching stories to Barbara Walters.

But you have to ask, how can children so young really know who they are?

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