Tag: transgender medical issues
Is there a link between autism & transgender or nonbinary people?
A new study out of England says that transgender and nonbinary people are also more likely to be autistic or display autistic traits than those who are cisgender.
The research, published in the September 2019 issue of the European Psychiatry journal, studied 177 people. Of those, a total of 14% of those who were transgender or nonbinary were also autistic, while an additional 28% were not diagnosed as autistic, but displayed autistic traits.
The authors found higher than average levels of...