This is an important truth, which is all too often ignored by the transphobic. Children are very capable of understanding who they really are, even though they may not have brains which have fully developed to make complex value decisions. The two are not the same. If people were more enlightened, they would take a wait-and-see attitude with regard to children rather than trying to mold them into a particular expectation of what they should be. But first, we have to accept that trans people are real and not defective or mentally disturbed. We still have a long ways to go. It is a battle I fight every day.