higher autistic trait scores. (Voulgarakis et al. 2026)
Gender-diverse individuals were found to be 3.03
to 6.36 times more likely to be autistic than cisgender individuals (Warrier et al. 2020)
Another study found that those with ASD were 7.76 times more likely to display
References:
Warrier, V., Greenberg, D. M., Weir, E., Buckingham, C., Smith, P., Lai, M. C., Allison, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2020). Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals.
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Gender-diverse participants who scored higher on genderqueer identity measures also reported greater masking and higher autistic trait scores. (Voulgarakis et al. Gender-diverse participants who scored higher on genderqueer identity measures also reported greater masking and
Continuing with our Pride month themed posts, today we’re looking at Autism and Gender-diversity
A Study into Genderdiversity in Neurodiverse individuals revelaed a strong correlation between genderqueer identity and both camouflaging behaviors and restricted/repetitive behaviors.
gender variance compared to neurotypical individuals (Janssen et al. 2016)
Many people with ASD felt that their gender identity had been invalidated by professionals and others because of their ASD diagnosis (Wong et al., 2019)