Gender detected at 5 but not

[Whinberry]

Both the Guardian and Telegraph yesterday ran an article about how gender is detected in the voice of 5 year old. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/16/child-gender-speech-age-five-research-university-minnesota.

It seems to me it emphatically does not support this conclusion. 28 boys between 5 and 13 boys selected by their parents for playing with girls and girls toys (and 'diagnosed' as gender dysphoria) were found to have speech patterns of the children they most commonly associated with (girls). It is suggested that this indicates both homosexuality and gender dysphoria us detectable from 5. No long term follow up. My dd had an Australian friend at 5 and picked up her accent to the point that everyone commented...

Why is journalism so poor?

Ds1 switches his accent between a really terrible fake American/canadian thing and our generic soft southerner accent, depending on who he is talking to. (With us he uses English, with his canadian friends - the weird NA one). I had to take him to A & E this week and a look of absolute horror flashed over him when the Chinese doc walked in and started asking him questions, because he had to make a decision as to which accent to use. He went with English in a panic. Interesting about the ASD thing - he does have a number of dx traits officially, but hadn’t thought to mention this.

Guardiansplaining how all the children are trans and need to be put on hormones immediately.

Verypersonalandcleverusername She shows no other symptoms of autism, so I don't think she is!

I was being a bit facetious; its only a couple of words really (snowman learnt from Frozen etc)