Speech by Emily Weir of Gender Critical Autistics

@Babdoc please thank your daughter for setting this up. My daughter is autistic and very literal and I dread her getting caught up in this gender nonsense

Emily is my amazing daughter, and I am utterly proud of her for making that speech and setting up the GC autistics FB group! They have over 100 members already. Emily helps out with autistic support in her workplace too.
Anyone on MN who is autistic or has autistic relatives and is thinking of joining her group will find it a safe space for GC views, and fully in favour of campaigning to get proper assessment of autistic teens who may wrongly think they are transgender just because their autism means they don’t fit gender stereotypes. We can have very rigid thought patterns - “I don’t like pink frilly dresses, I like computer games and trains - I must be a boy then”.
Autistics often have obsessional interests (mine was Star Trek!) and if those happen to be stereotypically male, an autistic girl is at risk of wrongly being told she is transgender. It is no coincidence that the incidence of autism in gender clinics is way above the population average.
As Emily says in her speech, the inappropriate hormone treatment of these teens sterilises them just as effectively as any Nazi eugenics program, which removes us from the gene pool. You can understand why we need to fight back, to campaign for our continued existence, and our right not to be forced into ridiculous gender stereotypes that will never fit us.

Is Gender Critical Autistics a group?

(I was just about to have an appointment to talk to my GP about a referral for diagnosis when lockdown hit. I may well not be autistic, but I score 6 on the AQ-10 and 37 on the longer AQ and have had some suspicions for a long time. Either way, I have family members who definitely are autistic and the sterilisation angle worries me.)

Thanks - that was good and clear. That 1.6% of the population make up 35% of referrals to GIDS should warrant alarm bells and robust research.