Influence of Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory Regarding the Transgender Narratives in suppression of Transgender Identities in theEarly Adolescence Age

Abstract

The purpose of the current article is to review identity development of personality in the early adolescent age. To accomplish this task, identity development in childhood is analyzed by utilizing Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development. Through this study the researcher found that society plays a major role in shaping and suppressing identities, especially the deviant ones. The article explains how the transgender identity is suppressed or masked in early childhood age to fit in the ‘normal’ society