New study confirms: Gender Diverse show much higher rates of autism

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[–]BEB[S] 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

This is the actual title:

"Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and gender diversity"

Does this title not make sense to anyone else?

[–]slushpilot 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Simply calling it "overlap" dismisses all notions of causality and vulnerability.

I think we're beyond wondering whether and why there is an "overlap". The correlation is actually causal, and I think they're being too shy to say so in the title.

[–]BEB[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't think it's shy, in my opinion it's either fear or money. If I remember correctly, Lisa Littman's Brown University study on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria also mentioned that minors sucked into transitioning had higher rates of autism, and there was at least one study before that, but Littman faced really outrageous attacks, so I think that some researchers are self-censoring or being censored on this topic.

Abigail Shrier got a death threat on her Twitter. It didn't seem like it came from an adult, but then how many of them do.

[–]slushpilot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To give the authors the benefit of the doubt though, they are being good scientists and only presenting the numeric facts in this paper without jumping ahead. Hopefully this provides a platform for more papers to cite this, analyze the findings, and draw the obvious (to us) conclusions & recommendations...

[–]BEB[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for clarifying.