Did you know that if you are trans you are more likely to be:
- Left handed.
- Have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Have Dyslexia
Looking back now when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s I had all the symptoms of a learning disorder, in school I was labeled... "Slow learners," a "Day dreamer," and "anti-social."
Being gender diverse is associated with greater risk for certain adverse experiences and outcomes, a new study reports.LGBTQ NationBy Greg OwenJanuary 25, 2025The first large-scale study on the experiences of autistic transgender people finds that they are more likely to have long-term mental and physical health conditions, including alarmingly high rates of self-harm, data from the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University shows.Researchers found that these individuals also report experiencing lower quality health care than both autistic and non-autistic people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth.
Pub Med with is the National Institute of Health has this to say about left-handiness in trans people.
Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryBy K J Zucker, N Beaulieu, S J Bradley, G M Grimshaw, A Wilcox08 October 2003AbstractHandedness preference was assessed in 205 boys with gender identity disorder and 205 clinical control boys referred for other reasons. Boys with gender identity disorder were significantly more likely to be left-handed than the clinical control boys (19.5% vs. 8.3%, respectively). The boys with gender identity disorder, but not the clinical control boys, also had a significantly higher rate of left-handedness compared to three independent, general population studies of nonreferred boys (11.8%; N= 14,253) by Hardyck, Goldman, and Petrinovich (1975), Calnan and Richardson (1976), and Eaton, Chipperfield, Ritchot, and Kostiuk (1996). Left-handedness appears to be a behavioral marker of an underlying neurobiological process associated with gender identity disorder in boys.
Caution: our friend Ken Zucker is one of the researchers!
This is also from Pub Med.
Nature ComminutionsBy Varun Warrier, David M Greenberg, Elizabeth Weir, Clara Buckingham, Paula Smith, Meng-Chuan Lai, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen2020 Aug 7AbstractIt is unclear whether transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism diagnosis or traits related to autism compared to cisgender individuals in large non-clinic-based cohorts. To investigate this, we use five independently recruited cross-sectional datasets consisting of 641,860 individuals who completed information on gender, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses including autism, and measures of traits related to autism (self-report measures of autistic traits, empathy, systemizing, and sensory sensitivity). Compared to cisgender individuals, transgender and gender-diverse individuals have, on average, higher rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses. For both autistic and non-autistic individuals, transgender and gender-diverse individuals score, on average, higher on self-report measures of autistic traits, systemizing, and sensory sensitivity, and, on average, lower on self-report measures of empathy. The results may have clinical implications for improving access to mental health care and tailoring adequate support for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.
The question that begs to be asked... why? What is going on in our brains?
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