section_heading: Dob formiranja
paragraph_text: Postoji nekoliko teorija o tome kako i kada se oblikuje rodni identitet, a proučavanje predmeta je teško jer nedostatak govora kod djece zahtjeva od istraživača da pretpostavljaju na osnovu neizravnih dokaza.J. A. Kleeman, ''The establishment of core gender identity in normal girls. I.(a) Introduction;(b) Development of the ego capacity to differentiate, in the Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 1971: "Though gender identity formation continues into young adulthood and core gender identity establishment extends into the fourth year and possibly longer, core gender identity is fairly firmly formed by age 3[.]" a pokušaji mijenjanja mogu rezultirati rodnom disforijom.E. Coleman, Developmental stages of the coming out process, in Journal of homosexuality, 1982: "Core gender and sex-role identities are well-formed by the age of 3 (Money & Ehrhardt, 1972). This is believed because attempts to reassign gender identity after age 3 result in further gender dysphoria." Ponešavanje rodnog identiteta proteže se od četvrteStein MT, Zucker KJ, Dixon SD. December, 1997. "Gender Identity", The Nurse Practitioner. Vo. 22, No. 12, p. 104 i nastavlja se u mladoj odrasloj dobi.