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Transgender and gender diverse people up to six times more likely to be autistic new study – MENAFN.COM

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that men are more likely to be autistic than women. For every woman who is autistic, evidence suggests that as many as four men are autistic . But studies investigating this often use the terms ‘sex assigned at birth’ and…

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(MENAFN – The Conversation) There is a lot of evidence to suggest that men are more likely to be autistic than women. For every woman who is autistic, evidence suggests that as many as four men are autistic . But studies investigating this often use the terms ‘sex assigned at birth’ and ‘gender identity’ interchangeably.
When someone is born, they are assigned a sex, typically boy or girl, based on their genitals. But gender identity is a person’s own sense of the…

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