Posted on 08/16/2020 5:11:09 AM PDT by karpov
Abstract: It 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.
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One should have compassion for the mentally ill, but that does NOT mean giving them whatever they want.
Mental illness is probably the fertile ground for what the disease of transgender ideas build upon.
Its terrible to see that kind of non-think opinion hold up so much sway.
Encouraging a person who wants a sex change ooeration is like telling an Anorexic “you are right - you ARE too fat.”
There is no transgender. There is only gender and freak
The mental conditions are those of freaks
should not there should be a DSM listing
for the a&&holes who enable these sicknesses
for their own diverse array of political and perverse reasons
I agree its freaky but I think what a person believes can definitely make a mental condition worse. Some positions people hold can certainly turn them into monsters. “Transgender” theory is one of those.
BIG PHARMA loves it also. Take Pfizer spinoff Zoetis opening up their animal vaccine labs in CHYna for one.
It's the fluoride in the water.! They're making us all Stooopid.!
The people I know who are “on the spectrum” aren’t less or more straight etc than other people. They do tend to be more “live and let live” with different people. But they are VERY good with calling BS/ferreting out bad vs good people.
Munchausen by Proxy........and most times the ‘by Proxy’ has no real connection to the individual who is being used. Parents who want attention use their children to get it.
The Dr-‘mother’ in Texas, who used an egg donor (So not even biologically related to the boy) to get pregnant, wanted a boy and a girl. She got two boys. So one is being used to fulfill her adult wants. Poor boy. The mom and the judge who is allowing the continuation of mom’s wants, should both be in jail.
Rats classifying them as victims and people of discrimination doesnt help
This has already been identified as a “social contagion”. Autistic girls are told that their strong systemic thinking, their slower sexual / relationship development and social awkwardness really means they’re “transmen” ... and if you become men, everything is cured.
Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria
https://quillette.com/2017/10/06/misunderstanding-new-kind-gender-dysphoria/
They’re deliberately being “cultivated” by sexual activists, because it adds gender “equity” to an issue that is overwhelmingly biological men identifying as women ... while often keeping the plumbing. It adds to their numbers, too, which is equated to power.
Worse. Sexual activists targeting autistic girls to inflate their numbers and offset all the crazy dudes in dresses who keep their plumbing ...
Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria
https://quillette.com/2017/10/06/misunderstanding-new-kind-gender-dysphoria/
Great analogy.
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