Saying that 8 year old has an IQ of 20 displays a misunderstanding of IQ and intelligence, but otherwise it’s indeed very probable that the girl(?) is very confused.
Zucker has come to believe that taking the view that kids are born transgender ultimately produces more transgender people.
“By declaring the child as transgendered at, say, age 3 or age 4 or age 6, and then saying in a sense, ‘Go with the flow,’ … that will impact, I believe, on how the kid’s gender identity differentiates,” he says.
The article was from 2008. Recent data shows that he was right on the money.