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Transphobes did not 'predict' anything about transage people. Age incongruence has been documented since 1948, when Magnus Hirschfeld described 'infantile' patients with 'attributes which are normally found in children' and who are 'averse to regarding themselves as grown up'. 
Like many psychological researchers, Dr Hirschfeld made a number of inaccurate assumptions, but some descriptions of his patients are remarkably similar to those seen in communities for people with age dysphoria today and undoubtedly refer to the same condition in some cases.
There have also been other researchers and journalists throughout the past century who have referred to different variations of age incongruence using terms such as 'adult–baby syndrome', 'age identity disorder', 'autopaedophilia', 'childlike self-concept' and 'age dysphoria'.
Saying 'Everyone feels younger' to deny the existence of age dysphoria is like saying 'Everyone feels sad' to deny the existence of depression.
Depression is not just feeling sad, and age dysphoria is not just feeling younger.
Depression is not just feeling sad, and age dysphoria is not just feeling younger.
Age dysphoria is a persistent, impairing distress that results from a mismatch between someone's internal sense of their age/development (age identity) and their chronological age.
Although there has been a small amount of research on the subject in the form of case studies and community surveys, there is little recongition of this phenomenon in the medical community, and thus, age dysphoria is not yet recognised in diagnostic manuals.
