The Link Between Autism and Trans Identity

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Confusion over why autism is so prevalent among transgender people may be limiting their access to medical care. - The Atlantic

Trans-Autistic/Autistic-Trans people are bieng told by professionals that autism is the cause of thier gender dysphoria.

So they wanted to fix Kaiden's autism to be sure he truly had gender identity.

I think that this conclusion is not entirely correct.

Both gender dysphoria and autism are differences in the brain (when compared to the norm), and having one such 'discrepancy' will increase the chance of others developing.

I will accept that autism increases the chances of having/developing gender dyshoria, but naming one as the *cause* for the other, i will not accept

Donald Trump is autistic but I do not believe he is transgender, and if he is I won't judge.

The article doesn't really cite any philosophical logic or scientific evidence correlating autisticism and transgenderism.

Absolutely - there is a statistically significant correlation but that just means that the two things appear together more than we can expect from chance. It says nothing at all about what the cause of this is. It could be one thing makes the other more likely or the other way around, or it could be a third, unknown factor, affects both.

Is there any citation for that or is that your opinion?

If someone goes to a mental health person citing numerous unrelated issues it's only reasonable to at least consider that the person has none of the conditions they "identify" with but are instead some kind of label-hunter.

I agree, although they might actually have all the issues they mentioned, the label-hunter option should be considered.

I can see how someone could become fixated/obsessed about being trans. For years I was convinced that I wanted a sex change and was very forward in letting my psychiatrists know.
Then over time the feeling has lessened. Was it a (delusional)obsession that reduced as I got better ,or was the lessening of the feeling a protective thing related to the realisation that given my psych history a sex change would never be possible.

I had the same thing. I used to want a sex-change, but over the years of my depression, and all the trauma and abuse, the only thing I want now is to defeat the tyranny of the World.

I am an absolute genius. The trauma, loneliness and despair has made realize the truths of existence. Had I got a sex-change and lived a happy life, I might not have fully realized the sick, sad nature of this horrible reality. I might not have ever realized the truth of just how garbage this world is, or how garbage the people are in it.

I am conscious of my own emotions, and how meaningless they are. Grown adults, act like stupid children. Talking heads, morons simpletons on TV.

If there is a link between trans and autism, autists are more sensitive, have deeper imaginations. Women are more sensitive, so autists are like sensitive women already, autists also have deeper imaginations so unlike animals and manimals, they can imagine themselves as beautiful, as the opposite sex.

As far as transmen go, women who turn into men, maybe they are autists and they are sick of being sensitive, and thus transition to be a man.

I have almost every mental illness in the book. Label-hunting is legit.

I think for many with ASD and transsexualism the social problems living as their biological sex due to their ASD would transfer over to living as their desired sex.