Are Aspies more likely to have GID?

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This has probably been brought up before, but is it just me, or do the number of people here seem to have gender identity issues? I'm just saying, it's not like I have anything against it or anything, but there seems to be quite a number that aren't suited to their sex. In fact, even I have gender issues, and have all my life, but not sure if it's major enough to the point that I'm transgendered.

So, because I'm just pretty much being curious, are those with Autism more likely to have gender identity issues?

(Not intended to be offensive, but feel free to delete if it somehow is.)

Not this Aspie. I've always been attracted to women; I just never wanted to be one, that's all.

Yeah cause gender is a social construct.

I am a transsexual possible aspie. I think its actually my possible aspergers that caused me to come out as female. I have never really cared about social constructs. Even down to the point where my parents yelled at me that I SHOULD care what others think...

And yes apparently I'm in the mood to split hairs. Sorry.

Both of you (appear to - apologies purchase if I'm wrong and you were avoiding getting in to the complexity) assume physical sex (which Fnord incorrectly calls gender) is binary (XX or XY and no other possibility) which is incorrect. There are all sorts of wacky (and some fairly frequent) chromosome combinations - XXX or XYY are examples - and it's even possible for one person to have more than one set of chromosomes (eg. XY and XXY.)

Yeah I know that it's not binary. Agreed.

I have identified as transgender for close to five years. But I've only realized I am probably an aspie for close to a year.

I've never cared about social norms, or actually for that matter even noticed them. In my world, I am the normal one. I think that is how and why I've been able to freely express myself as who I feel like, rather than the body I was born in. It is only in the last four years that I have resented my physical sex, and desired a change. Now I am at the point where I've had to start coming out (at least to healthcare providers) because I am not a healthy person, and frankly I need help.

Speaking as transgender and on the ASD spectrum I would say gender issues are more common for those with ASD. Gender is a social construct so it makes sense that those with ASD would have a more difficult time "playing along". In reality, your personality is determined by genes that both sexes share. Hormones play a role in how this personality manifests.

Like almost everything in this Universe, gender is multidimensional. You cannot confine it in some binary. It just doesn't work. People with ASD can see past the social constructs into the true reality.

Transgenderism has a physical component to it too (the brain being made for the opposite hormone which can cause physical and emotional pain). This is the reason many people with transgenderism transition.

While my biological sex is female, I am a heterosexual male. It is the way my brain is programmed. And what my mind says should be more important than what my body says.

My biological sex is female.

My gender is "none."

I am who I am. I dress how I want. I pursue my interests without regard as to whether they're "masculine" or "feminine." I present myself to others the way I feel most comfortable at any given moment, not caring at all if my gender ambiguity makes people uncomfortable. I couldn't care less what pronouns anyone uses to refer to me.

I've been told by various people throughout my life that I don't strike them as male or female.....I simply exist. Anyone attempting to put my in a box is going to be severely disappointed. There are particular biological realities that go along with physical sex, and there are some general trends, but, beyond that, the concepts of "masculine" and "feminine" don't exist outside of the socio-cultural imagination of a certain time period.

In the meantime, keep yer stinkin' "gender" OFF of me. Thank you.