Really? You serious have no idea? YOU TAKE THE POSITION YOU DO AND YOU DON'T KNOW THE DATA BEHIND IT? Are you really serious? Are you an adult? You actually take social positions without investigating the details
and actual facts before deciding?
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Wow, just lost a little respect for you. My God man, do you really think stating "I'm inclusive" & "I care" & "respecting the rights" is really sufficient to advocate for something as complex & nuanced as Gender Dysphoria? Let's "respect the rights" of the bulimic while we're at it right?
"does not mean that all trans people are autistic." You really don't know what likelihood, far more common, more likely and probable mean, do you? You think repeating this mantra is a sufficient answer? You really think Affirmation versus Watchful Waiting is a good solution?
Here is some inconvenient information - sometimes called published & peer-reviewed scientific studies & papers - that you're going to ignore.
Children referred to the UK’s largest gender clinic were
vastly more likely than average to present with autistic traits.
One study noted that:
48% of children and young people who were seen in GIDS and whose parents completed the social responsiveness scale (SRS), a quantitative measure of autistic behaviours in children and young people, scored in the mild to severe range.
Churcher Clarke, A. & Spiliadis, A. (2019). ‘Taking the lid off the box’: The value of extended clinical assessment for adolescents presenting with gender identity difficulties. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry 24 (2): 338-352.
Obsessive-compulsive traits are more common in people with gender dysphoria.
At least two studieshave found a particular connection between intense interests or repetitive behaviors – associated with autism spectrum disorders – and gender dysphoria.
Zucker, K.J., Nabbijohn, A.N., Santarossa, A., Wood, H., Bradley, S.J., Matthews, J., & VanderLaan, D.P. (2017). Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form. Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health 11, 51.
VanderLaan, D.P., Postema, L., Wood, H., Singh, D., Fantus, S., Hyun, J., Leef, J., Bradley, S.J. & Zucker, K.J.. (2015). Do children with gender dysphoria have intense/obsessional interests? J Sex Res. 52 (2): 213-9.
Children with ADHD are far more likely than average to express gender variance. A study on children found that, as compared to non-referred comparisons,
participants with ADHD were 6.64 times more likely to express gender variance than participants without ADHD. The study also found that, in cases of ADHD, this gender variance was related to elevated emotional symptoms.
Strang, J.F., Kenworthy, L., Dominska, A., Sokoloff, J., Kenealy, L.E., Berl, M., Walsh, K., Menvielle, E., Slesaransky-Poe, G., Kim, K.E., Luong-Tran, C., Meagher, H. & Wallace, G.L. (2014) Increased gender variance in autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Arch Sex Behav 43 (8): 1525-33.
This finding, from an American campus survey, found that gender minority status was associated with “
4.3 times higher odds of having at least 1 mental health problem.”
Lipson, S. K., Raifman, J., Abelson, S. & Reisner, S. L. (2019). Gender Minority Mental Health in the U.S.: Results of a National Survey on College Campuses. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 57 (3): 293-301. [
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Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy article notes that “a large percentage of adolescents referred for gender dysphoria have a
substantial co-occurring history of psychosocial and psychological vulnerability.”
Bechard, M., VanderLaan, D. P., Wood, H., Wasserman, L. & Zucker, K. (2017). Psychosocial and Psychological Vulnerability in Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: A “Proof of Principle” Study. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 43 (7).
In a systematic review of individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria, 53.2% had at least one mental disorder in their lifetime.
Such figures substantially exceed prevalence rates of comorbid psychopathology in the general population : a further paper studying hospital encounters found that the prevalence of
mental disorder diagnoses was higher in transgender encounters (77%) than in the general population (37.8%).
Zucker, K.J., Lawrence, A.A., Kreukels, B.P. (2016). Gender Dysphoria in Adults. Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 12: 217-47.
Bishoy, H., Repack, D., Tarang, P., Guirguis, E., Kumar, G. & Sachdeva, R. (2019). Psychiatric disorders in the U.S. transgender population. Annals of Epidemiology 39: 1-7.
Dhejne, C., Lichtenstein, P., Boman, M., Johansson, A. L. V., Långström, N., & Landén, M. (2011). Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: Cohort study in Sweden. PLoS ONE, 6(2).
A study which compared the medical records of 1333 trans-identified children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 17 years old with a similar cohort of non-trans-identified children and adolescents showed that
49% of males and 62% of females had depressive disorders.
Becerra-Culqui, T.A. Liu, Y., Nash, R., Cromwell, L., Flanders, W.D., Getahun, D. Giammattei, S.V., Hunkeler, E.M., Lash, T.L., Millman, A., Quinn, V.P., Robinson, B., Roblin, D., Sandberg, D.E., Silverberg, M.J., Tangpricha, V. & Goodman, M. (2018). ‘Mental health of transgender and gender nonconforming youth compared with their peers. Pediatrics 141(5).
In a review of 20 publications,
significantly higher rates of eating disorder symptoms were documented in transgender youth (aged between 8 and 25).
Coelho, J., Suen, J., Clark, B., Marshall, S., Geller, J. & Lam, P.-Y. (2019). Eating Disorder Diagnoses and Symptom Presentation in Transgender Youth: a Scoping Review. Current Psychiatry Reports
You really want to do down this path? There are many, many,
many more demographic studies for those that suffer from Gender Dysphoria.
