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The hypothesis is that ASD is severely underdiagnosed in those presenting female, and most often diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. Hence most late-transiti
by sverona 3y ago
The hypothesis is that ASD is severely underdiagnosed in those presenting female, and most often diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. Hence most late-transitioning women have a diagnosis from when their practitioner thought they were male.
- psychphysic 3y agoI think it's well established that there are more autistic men than autistic women. At least to the point that I wouldn't challenge it with ideology alone. There is an awkwardness here. If transwomen didnt choose to feel like women we must accept it as a neurodovergent condition, why would there not be coexistence with other meurodovergent conditions?
- sverona 3y agoIndeed, why not? But overmedicalizing transness does nobody any good. I'm going to be honest with you, I don't really think this is a problem that needs solving. I haven't heard of a single trans GM, unlike the situation in powerlifting, cycling, etc. FIDE is infamously corrupt and this reeks to me of politics. It's also not hard to notice that it's mostly run by Eastern Europeans, usually from former Soviet satellite states, which have as a rule a dim opinion of trans people.