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I don't think cases of boys raised as girls coming to realize they're boys proves gender identity, or it doesn't prove it as some independent feature of human beings. I didn't start identifying with boys once I realized I was one too, I still saw myself as a girl, so all that I feel like can really be drawn from these sorts of scenarios is that it is possible for a child to not recognize their own sex in the face of evidence. There are a lot of children with intersex conditions who grow up without gender dysphoria, too, like in this study showing only 5% of people with a variety of intersex conditions changing their gender total, only 1% of those being after puberty.