In today's world there are many different sexual identities that a person can adhere to, instead of just being heterosexual or homosexual. What a sexual identity is is how you refer to thinking about yourself in terms of who you are romantically or sexually attracted to. One type of sexual identity is when a person, whether male or female, feels like they are in the wrong body and wants to change sex. Individuals who identify as transgender are usually not adults, in some cases they are children going through phases of feeling out of place with their body and wanting to change it. Some people in today's society would find it very strange that children wish to have a different body, to understand why this is happening you should know what exactly transgender and transsexual are, what causes transgenderism and the first signs of transgenderism. This phenomenon has existed for a long time, and due to the great misunderstanding, there is a lot of confusion when faced with it. In order to understand how children become transgender or transsexual you need to know what transgender and transsexual mean, what causes transgenderism and its early signs, and be mentally prepared for what is to come. Most of the responsibility for understanding transgender children falls on the parents of transgender children. Transsexual, simply defined, is a person who from the depths of his being feels as if he is in the wrong orientation and transgenderism is that state of being in which one's gender is not specified. don't match those feelings. In the case of transgender children, they usually feel as if God has made a mistake and in some cases the kids especially try to alleviate the situation on their own… middle of paper… er roles. The United States has medicalized transgenderism into a disorder where they are dealing with transsexualism, this act of diagnosing transsexualism as a disorder is also dangerous because it would make the child feel like they are an anomaly. What some parents have recommended to people who have transgender children is to simply let them embrace it and help them be happy with who they are. Parents say they do this because the child would feel depressed and face problems developing in the future. In conclusion, transgender children are not a problem that can be diagnosed or even cured with holistic medicine or even going to the “straight camp”. In children they only express what they feel about themselves as true and they just want that dream to come true. They hope that their parents will understand them and treat them as the gender they so desperately want to be.