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Autism and gender identity

violetdr3amer

I just came across this article and it got me thinking...

https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/

I saw some stats somewhere a while ago, which show that quite a lot of people on the spectrum are trans or identify as non-binary/gender-fluid. Quite a lot of us are gender non-conforming, or we don't identify to our assigned gender role.

I'm a woman but I've been told many times that I "act like a bloke", and from my observations/in my opinion, NTs are much more gender-stereotyped and conform more to societal gender roles.

Thoughts?

Parents

  • Autisms got feck all to do with gender identity. Everything bar the kitchen sink gets thrown in with it. Next some idiot is going to say Autism has links with what football team you support like Autistic people are much more likely to support the northern football team in a city than the southern.  Ever think people who feel they are of a different gender can also be Autistic???? Not a stretch is it. Probably not a good idea to talk about this topic on here unless what your really trying to do is ruin some peoples careers by saying the wrong thing about it.

  • in reply to NAS71674

    The jury is still out on whether there is a direct causal link but there is definitely a statistical correlation that has been found in reputable studies www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

  • in reply to Peter

    Given the relatively low number of transgender and gender-diverse individuals => can't make any conclusions about the population as the sample size is relatively low and that tends to give wild fluctuations in the outcomes, in the general population and would be even more so in the autistic population.

    I dare say that there are not many transgender autistic people at all because there are so few autistic people.

    I also know for a fact that clinicians are not in general very good at applying statistical analyses, often making mistakes and incorrect conclusions (both currently and historically) and don't have the proper expertise to interpret results. There can be statistical correlations between total unrelated things but that doesn't mean there is a causal connection i.e. one property causes another.

    Even if there was anything to this , the implication isn't autistic => likely transgender, its transgender => statistically elevated rate of autism in this particular study containing relatively low numbers of people. Hardly cuts mustard.

  • in reply to NAS71674

    Actually this is quite a sizeable study for its kind. And yes it certainly is the case that they’ve been looking at the prevalence of autism amongst ‘gender diverse’ persons. But that doesn’t invalidate the research. ‘Variant gender presentation’ is very rare, rarer than autism, so it’s far easier to recruit A cohort of ‘gender diverse‘ people and look at the previlence of autism than the other way around. The correlation is not a perfect argument but it is significant circumstantial evidence.

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  • in reply to NAS71674

    Actually this is quite a sizeable study for its kind. And yes it certainly is the case that they’ve been looking at the prevalence of autism amongst ‘gender diverse’ persons. But that doesn’t invalidate the research. ‘Variant gender presentation’ is very rare, rarer than autism, so it’s far easier to recruit A cohort of ‘gender diverse‘ people and look at the previlence of autism than the other way around. The correlation is not a perfect argument but it is significant circumstantial evidence.

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