&gt; there&#x27;s a very good example of that in Japanese society where it accepted for young children to be attracted or even in love with other children of the same sex.<p>&gt; It is considered as something they will grow out of even if sometimes they don&#x27;t.<p>Sexual orientation and gender identity are two different things (you can be trans without being attracted to people of the same biological sex, and vice versa.)<p>So, while the example you refer to (if true) might be relevant to discussion of whether sexual orientation drifts from childhood (or, perhaps, whether environmental pressures get people to outwardly conform to heteronormative social expectations when their orientation is homo- or bi-sexual), it doesn&#x27;t seem anything directly to do with gender identity discussion.