Transgender and gender diverse people up to six times more likely to be autistic – new study – The Conversation UK

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 persons own sense of their gender, which may differ from the sex they were assigned at b…

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