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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Dev. 2023 Oct 18;33(1):e12720. doi: 10.1111/sode.12720

Table 3:

The GES-C Items

Items
A kid can choose to be a girl or a boy [boy or a girl]; it doesn’t matter what their body looks like. [Rev]
Girls/boys do girl [boy] things because they have girl [boy] bodies.
You know a kid is a girl or boy [boy or girl] because of what their body look like.
A girl/boy is a girl [boy], even before she [he] is born.
Girls and boys [boys and girls] are the same. [Rev]
A kid can feel like a girl [boy] sometimes and a boy [girl] other times. [Rev]
A kid can feel like a girl [boy] and a boy [girl] at the same time. [Rev]
Girls and boys [boys and girls] are opposites.
Girls [boys] all over the world act the same.
It’s easy to tell if a kid is a girl or a boy [boy or girl] by how they act.
Girls [boys] all act very different from one another. [Rev]
It’s easy to tell if a kid is a girl or a boy [boy or a girl] by the toys they like.
A kid can change from a girl [boy] to a boy [girl]. [Rev]
A girl [boy] can become a boy/girl if she [he] wants. [Rev]
If a kid is a girl [boy] when they’re born, they will be a girl [boy] when they grow up, too.
A girl [boy] can’t change that she [he] is a girl [boy].

Note: [Rev] indicates reverse-coded items.