12/14/2023
About 30,000, or 5 percent, of the cisgender people in the study, are autistic, whereas 895, or 24 percent, of the gender-diverse people are autistic.
This supports my argument that trans-affirming healthcare providers (and other services) need to be autism-informed and affirming, and vice versa. The quality of our care matters. We deserve care that is tailored to our neurologies and gender identities. Everyone does!
People who do not identify with the s*x they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are, according to the
