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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First, across all five datasets, transgender and gender-diverse individuals were 3.03 to 6.36 times as likely to be autistic than were cisgender individuals, after controlling for age and educational attainment. Second, transgender and gender-diverse individuals scored significantly higher on self-report measures of autistic traits, systemizing and sensory sensitivity and scored significantly lower on empathy traits compared to cisgender individuals. Third, in two datasets with available data, transgender and gender-diverse individuals had elevated rates of multiple other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. Finally, exploratory analysis identified that transgender and gender-diverse individuals were more likely to report that they suspected they had undiagnosed autism.

Well, that's concerning. I certainly don't believe in this "opposite brain" nonsense when the same researcher who initially published it later found it wasn't true by accounting for sexuality. Most likely these kinds are predatory, see also "pink pillers", and autistic people or people with insecure identities are most likely and most easily taken up by uprooting their ideas of themselves. It's not a stretch, after all, if you already feel yourself completely isolated or disjoined from human society. Just some guesses on my part.

What I sincerely wish to find or get would be something like this, but more broadly considering personality disorders in conjunction with developmental or psychiatric conditions. But this is a start.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Given that gender dysphoria is literally a mental illness, it comes as no surprise that other mental illnesses crop up more frequently among people touched by this one. And versa-vice.

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I always heard that autistic people were also more likely to be LGBTQ+. I guess the same is also true the other way.

(Disclaimer: only read the headline)

[–]High_and_Lonesome 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm autistic. It turns my stomach to see the word "transpie" (That's trans + aspie (aspergers)). I don't think that autistic people should be encouraged to transition. They just have a different brain and dont fit into the same societal boxes. That doesn't mean they should have their bodies mutilated and force themselves into a role they literally were not born to play.

Also, there's a push within the autistic community to use a rainbow infinity as a symbol. Rainbow already means LGBT. If you make it also mean autism, young people will be lead to believe that they must be LGBT as well. It's like they don't get how manipulating that is. Of course they don't, they're autistic.

Ugh. The more I learn about both transgenderism and autism, the more fucked up it gets.