I Don’t Know If This Is True

It looks like they data mined this from health data of over a half a million patients.

Transgender, gender-diverse adults more likely to have autism
Healio
By Erin Michael
August 7, 2020


Transgender and gender-diverse adults are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than cisgender adults, according to research published in Nature Communications.

“This finding, using large datasets, confirms that the co-occurrence between being autistic and being transgender and gender-diverse is robust,” Varun Warrier, PhD, research associate at the Autism Research Centre in the department of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and colleagues wrote. “We now need to understand the significance of this co-occurrence, and identify and address the factors that contribute to well-being of this group of people.”

Warrier and colleagues reviewed five cross-sectional datasets with information on more than 641,860 participants, including their gender, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses and measures of traits related to autism such as empathy, systemizing and sensory sensitivity.
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Across all five datasets, Warrier and colleagues found that adults who were transgender or gender-diverse were between three and six times more likely than cisgender adults to report that they were diagnosed with autism.

I was never diagnosed with a learning disorder but I do believe that I have dyslexia and possibly a mild form of ADHD. Back when I went to school no one ever heard of ADHD but I always thought that my early years were like living in a bubble, I wasn’t aware of what was happening around me. As dyslexia the symptoms fit me to a “T” and in grad school one of my professors who specialized in learning disorders in adults thought that I might have it gave me a screening test of twenty-five questions, I had something like 18 out of the 25.

“Understanding how autism manifests in transgender and gender-diverse people will enrich our knowledge about autism in relation to gender and sex,” Meng-Chuan Lai, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a collaborator on the study, said in a press release. “This enables clinicians to better recognize autism and provide personalized support and health care.”

Caution… Caution…

We have to realize that this is only an interesting fact, the two should not be linked. It is just like more LGBTQ people are left-handed than the straight, it is an interesting factoid but we cannot say that if you have autism that you are trans or if you don’t have autism you can’t be trans.

The brain works in mysterious ways that we are just beginning to understand.