--- --- # Children Have Pretty Flexible Ideas About Gender Identity by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 18, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 18, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Children have pretty flexible ideas about gender identity. Maybe we can learn from them.**](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/01/16/study-finds-children-think-flexibly-about-gender-identity/) By Joan Brasher at _Vanderbilt University_ **2\.** [**Levels of this hormone can reveal when we want to overeat.**](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/evening%5Fhours%5Fmay%5Fpose%5Fhigher%5Frisk%5Ffor%5Fovereating%5Fespecially%5Fwhen%5Funder%5Fstress%5Fstudy%5Ffinds%5F) By _Johns Hopkins Medicine_ **3\.** [**There’s nothing wrong with searching for ways to fight aging.**](https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/anti-ageing-research-is-nothing-to-fear) By Laurie Zoloth in _Cosmos_ **4\.** [**Americans aren’t really worried about war with North Korea. Here’s why.**](https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/americans-arent-really-worried-war-north-korea/) By David Barno and Nora Bensahel at _War on the Rocks_ **5\.** [**What does the Hawaii false alarm tell us about the horrors of human error?**](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/hawaii-alert-north-korea-icbm/550538/) By Paul McLeary in the _Atlantic_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Children Are Flexible About Gender Identity ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5107724/children-have-pretty-flexible-ideas-about-gender-identity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5107724/children-have-pretty-flexible-ideas-about-gender-identity/"},"headline":"Children Have Pretty Flexible Ideas About Gender Identity","datePublished":"2018-01-18T17:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:12.191Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5107724/children-have-pretty-flexible-ideas-about-gender-identity/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","North Korea","Innovation","gender","Aging","eating"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5107724/children-have-pretty-flexible-ideas-about-gender-identity/","name":"Children Have Pretty Flexible Ideas About Gender Identity"}}]}] ```