“…The role of parents as a central socialization agent for children's gender development is well established in the literature (Blakemore et al, 2009;Cook et al, 2019;Endendijk et al, 2016;Lemelin et al, 2021;Menon et al, 2017;Perry & Pauletti, 2011;Tobin et al, 2010;Turner & Gervai, 1995), but less is known about the parental role in children's binary gender identity development. Several theoretical frameworks offer different explanations about children's gender identity development, varying in their proposed processes (i.e., social, biological, cognitive), but all stress how parents might play an essential role in children's gender identity development (Leaper, 2015).…”