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Transgender people much more likely to be autistic

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8603733/Transgender-people-likely-autistic-study-reveals.html  Quoting:

Transgender adults are up to six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than those whose gender identity corresponds with their birth sex, researchers claim. University of Cambridge analysed data from 600,000 adults drawn from five different datasets, including over 500,000 individuals questioned as part of the Channel 4 documentary 'Are you autistic?' which aired in 2018. They found that rates of autism among transgender adults far surpassed the numbers for the British population as a whole.

While just over 1% of the UK population is estimated to be on the autistic spectrum, up to 6.5% of gender-diverse adults are on the autistic spectrum. Transgender and gender-diverse individuals were also more likely to indicate that they had received diagnoses of mental health conditions, particularly depression. A better understanding of gender diversity in autistic individuals will help provide better access to health care and post-diagnostic support, the experts say . . .

Individuals who took part in the Channel 4 documentary provided information about their gender identity and if they received a diagnosis of autism or other psychiatric conditions such as depression or schizophrenia. Participants also completed a measure of autistic traits, which included difficulty with social interaction and resistance to changing routines. Across all five datasets, transgender and gender-diverse adult individuals were between three and six times more likely to indicate that they were diagnosed as autistic. This was compared to people whose gender identity corresponds to their sex at birth, commonly known as 'cisgender'.

While the study used data from adults who indicated that they had received an autism diagnosis, it is likely that many individuals on the autistic spectrum may be undiagnosed. As around 1.1% of the UK population is estimated to be on the autistic spectrum, this result would suggest that somewhere between 3.5% and 6.5% of transgender and gender-diverse adults are on the autistic spectrum . . . On average, transgender and gender diverse people scored higher on measures of autistic traits, regardless of whether they had an autism diagnosis. They were also more than twice as likely as to have experienced depression.

The study did not investigate whether gender identity causes autism or the other way round, however. 'Both autistic individuals and transgender and gender-diverse individuals are marginalized and experience multiple vulnerabilities,' said Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge.




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