Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and gender diversity

Spectrum News ^ | September 14, 2020 | LAURA DATTARO

[Jayster]

People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are, according to the largest study yet to examine the connection1. Gender-diverse people are also more likely to report autism traits and to suspect they have undiagnosed autism.

Researchers often use ‘gender diverse’ as an umbrella term to describe people whose gender identities — such as transgender, nonbinary or gender-queer — differ from the sex they were assigned at birth. Cisgender, or cis, refers to people whose gender identity and assigned sex match.

The results come from an analysis of five unrelated databases that all include information about autism, mental health and gender.

[GingisK]

Did they ever decide anything on that one?

[GingisK]

Yeah, right.

[Boogieman]

They’ve got it backwards. Autistic people are more like to have been recruited into the “transgender” movement, because the freaks have been targeting people on the autism spectrum for recruitment. This is well known.

[dangus]

I’m not sure how to relate your story to what I wrote: are you relating gender dysphoria to schizophrenia? Are you saying people are failing to recognize the illness of transexuals? Or that people who think that transexuals are just seeking attention like people who thought schizophrenics were just poorly parented?

[ryderann]

Thank you so much. Really good to know. First hand information is much better.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm talking,generally,about brain disorders. Schizophrenia is now recognized as being a brain disorder...not the result of bad parenting. It seems distinctly possible that “gender dysphoria” is also the result of some kind of chemical,or structural,brain abnormality.

[cowboyusa]

I’m Autistic. This is nothing but an attempt to groom Autistic kids, that is why they but the Autism sign on the “pride flag.” Absolutly Demonic!😡

[Antoninus]

As someone who once worked in media related to autism, I can say without hesitation that autistic kids are specifically targeted by the purveyors of gender confusion. I suspect that this is because once an autistic kid latches onto an idea (see Greta Thunberg), they cling to it like grim death for the rest of their lives.

[Eva]

Yes, there is some sort of connection between this trans movement and autism. The problem is that people are being forced to accept the thinking of these autistic people as if it is normal. I can tell you from personal experience, Autistic are just extreme narcissists. The Left is using them to push an agenda that will destroy the western family.

[dangus]

Quite possibly. Abuse often leads to chemical abnormalities, however. But what’s critical here is that “gender dysphoria” is a condition, “transsexual” is a description that implies a particular treatment. Since gender dysphoria resolves itself spontaneously 80% of the time (some studies claim as high as 97%), any therapy which locks in the condition permanently must reduce symptoms by at least 80% before it can be called successful in any way, so the presumption that gender “reassignment” surgery is the inevitable solution to gender dysphoria has a pretty big hurdle to clear.

I’d argue that even if there is a physical origin to gender dysphoria, the notion that someone’s notion of which gender they are is somehow more correct than any assignment based on genotype and phenotype is a strictly religious notion.

[Gay State Conservative]

Agreed! To focus on kids in general is despicable but to focus on kids who might be particularly vulnerable...or be seen to be particularly vulnerable...is despicable X 10!

[mewzilla]

From 2021, some food for thought...

Acute Psychosis Due to Anti-N-Methyl D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case Report

From 2023...

Non-neutralizing antibodies to SARS-Cov-2-related linear epitopes induce psychotic-like behavior in mice

Holy merde, what I'm wondering...

[mewzilla]

From 2022...

Acute psychosis induced by mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents: A pediatric case report

[DoodleBob]

Very interesting post. Thank you.

As an Asst Scoutmaster I’ve worked with Scouts on the spectrum. There is a lot of truth in what you wrote.

I’ve cc’d The Writer, who’s probably FR’s authority on this topic and, not coincidentally, not a dogmatist. Or a jack wagon.

[TheWriterTX]

Typically, it is the result of a defect in the endocrine system. There are several medical conditions that can result in gender dysphoria, including Klinefelters, Kallman’s, Jacobs, Turners, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Non-Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, hyperthyroidism, etc. Not everyone who has these conditions will suffer from gender dysphoria, but some will.

The endocrine system is what drives the production of hormones in the body. Too many or not enough will result in abnormal sexual development, premature or delayed puberty, etc.

In the case of my child, their body overproduced free-floating adrenal androgens (the precursor to estrogen, testosterone) and the adrenal receptors in the brain were recognizing these excess hormones as testosterone. When she hit puberty, her body began masculinizing naturally (no outside interference was required). Instead of maturing like a girl, she developed like a boy (square jaw, masculine musculature, masculine body hair, deep voice). It was bizarre watching my beautiful little girl morph into a dude with no way to stop it. Trust me, we spent thousands and consulted specialists as far away as Canada for help and prayed daily for God’s intervention.

Both my husband and I were carrying a recessive gene (it didn’t impact us) that came out in two of our 3 children. In my youngest son, it caused premature bone maturation, Asbergers, and sterility. In my daughter, it caused hyperandrogenism and gender dysphonia.

Syndromes such as these are rare. The overwhelming majority of kids coming out as trans are not actually trans. It’s social contagion. There is almost always a legitimate medical condition as the basis for gender dysphoria; otherwise, it’s a mental thing or an attention seeking thing and those kids need therapy not surgery/hormones.

Further, only a small percentage of the medical based GD actually remain dysphoric after puberty ends. Surgery and hormones to reassign sex for children is contrary to actual science. The affirmation push is agenda-driven, not science based.

My children were raised in a loving, intact Christian household. At the time the GD hit, my daughter was an accomplished young lady (straight A student, scored in the top 1% on her STAAR exams, won awards for art and engineering, and was on the debate team). She had friends, regularly attended church, and enjoyed spending Sundays in the kitchen baking and cooking with me. We were already getting offers from top colleges.

I laugh at the internet trolls who claimed we groomed her. They can answer to God for that lie.

There is a lot of garbage masquerading as “information” out there, a lot of hate, too.

Just know that trans people (truly trans) would do anything to feel normal. It’s a horrible condition.

[TheWriterTX]

Check out my reply 35.

I’m strongly considering writing an article about my family’s experiences but I realized it would be a series of articles spread over multiple parts.

[DoodleBob]

Slightly off-topic…I will never bash Greta.

Her parents, however, are filth. So are the retinue her despicable parents hired to monetize Greta's environmentalism while using this ill child as a human shield.

It is well-documented that Greta is on the autism spectrum and suffers from ADHD. She was suffering from depression as well. Greta, while searching for meaning in life, picked up on this green nonsense. Her parents, rather than setting her straight - or at least protecting her - quickly pushed their minor into the limelight. This is neglectful, but hey the cash started to tumble in, and the parents' child was a comfy human shield.

Sure, she's reached the age of majority. But the aim of my disdain is where it belongs. Behold, the Grand Prize winners for narcissistic parents...

[dangus]

Well stated.

[MalPearce]

I highly recommend you read Andrea Speck’s proposal for Genderbread v5. It’s easily found on the internet.

It’s not perfect by a long shot but at least it’s not being mocked up by Stonewall; it’s just one individual’s take on what’s wrong with the gender model that has been hijacked by institutions.

It attempts to address cover the difference between sexual attraction (or lack of it), romantic (or aromantic) attraction, and nurturing attraction (or people who just can’t be doing with hugging, ‘sharing’ etc).

This is the area that most neogenders are set in, including things like neurogender and autigender (which are subsets of how folks on the autistic spectrum may be aromantic and asexual/ androgyne but without any conscious effort to be that way).

To understand neurogenders, consider Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, who doesn’t appear to have even considered the possibility of being straight or gay, because he can’t picture having any intimate relationship with anyone beyond having a necessary mechanical “coitus” in order to gift his genes to the next generation!). He’s a rational empiricist; until he experiences (mostly unwillingly) attention from Amy he treats intimacy as an irrelevant abstract concept.

Revulsion to the very idea of having sex is not gay, not straight, and is far more deep rooted than abstinence or celibacy. The neogender world has therefore added “apothisexual” for people who’re repelled by the idea of ever having sexual relations.

Is it a real thing? Of course. Most of us were apothisexual before we had our sexual awakening. How many of us went “Ewww! Gross!” when we first learned about where babies come from?

And that’s a vital thing missing in the conversation. ABSENCE of desires/attractions. Kids aren’t latently heterosexual or homosexual, they’re probably platonic, aromantic, asexual or even apothisexual.

Of course that all means INNOCENCE is what’s missing from the gender model.