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An 8-year-old child who has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) has been attending a public elementary school in Saitama Prefecture as a girl — which is the opposite of his sex at birth– with the school’s cooperation, it has been learned.
Students and parents at the school have been informed of the situation. Experts have reported several examples of children who have requested that they be treated in school as the opposite of their given sex, but such cases have been limited to arrangements made before the children begin attending school. This is the first case in which a child’s gender has been “changed” in the middle of a school year.