Is there such a thing as a GC Autism support charity?

Though I doubt you are even part of the group and you are simply making up stories.

Every right to harass those with protected beliefs? I don’t think so. You can only do so because you hide and spy on the group. If you had a ‘right to do so’ you would not need to hide.

@plipplops I don’t know about mental health support, only that if you can find someone who follows evidence based practice and preferably NHS (which is usually some form of CBT). But as her immediate problem is navigating school without her BF, I wonder whether you could talk to the school / DD about interim extra support in school, or even a school buddy.

I have every right to report content I see on Facebook according to their policy if I believe it may be in breach. It will be their decision if it is in breach and if so what action to take.

The courts have found that wild accusations of transphobia amount unlawful harassment and discrimination.

Not at all, very judgmental of you to presume that.

The group isn't for people with autism at all, it's a gender critical group with a lot of vile transphobia on it. I can see why it's set to private.

Indeed, and showing a fair degree of hatred and bigotry towards members of a private group set up for autistic people who share a protected belief.

It's could barely be described as a support group at all, it's basically just Reddit's former Gender Critical sub.

In my view the group is hateful and could put vulnerable people at risk of harm. The group itself and much of its content has been reported to Facebook.

So you are not gender critical.

And you are not willing to say if you are autistic.

Yet you have decided to join this support group for vulnerable adults to spy on them. Gosh you sound like a lovely person and not at all inappropriate or creepy .

Sorry, edited, as the post was incorrect: I’m wondering whether the OP might be hyper focusing on whether someone is going to try to make their child trans or nonbinary in some way? It doesn’t seem like a logical concern, if their child has no interest in those issues. It would seem more logical to be concerned about getting autism support?

Prefer not to answer that, but I have concerns about the amount of transphobia in that group.

@TownGown, are you autistic yourself?

Seen a lot of vile content in the "GC autism" group I've had to report.

Also interesting one of the admin's profile image is a selfie of herself with Kelly Jay Keen, that says a lot about the group.

In my area, schools have a referral pathway online hub thing ly that they can use to refer children for counselling- there's also a special neurodiverse counselling/support option. You can self-refer, so can the GP and it all goes to the same group but we got a quicker response via school. The downside was that I wasn't able to vet the person.

Barnados also do ND counselling but the person we saw had a Stonewall Champion email footer. Kooth also refer to Mermaids.

I don't think most would raise it though tbh. They might affirm if she said she was a boy but I do hope the vast vast majority of therapists don't go around suggesting it.

Hate to say it but online mental health supports are even worse. Mind have plastered themselves in a pride flag and are directing people to stonewall and mermaids.

Seems like there might be enough numbers for parents to start their own network / support group to discuss and share knowledge about their autistic children and keep it free from ideological influence of gender identity / transgenderism.

Autistic women are three times more likely to be sexually assaulted than their neurotypical counterparts.

That's shocking, especially when you consider how many of them that is, by the statistic you posted that nearly a third of all women have been or will be.

Gah, why is everything in Zuckerberg's privacy-destroying data mine? I refuse to join it and block all its traffic in my browser.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087551/

By contrast, around three in ten women are victims of sexual violence.

Diagnosed autistic woman here.

Autistic women are three times more likely to be sexually assaulted than their neurotypical counterparts. A large part of this is because we are inherently vulnerable. We struggle to understand other people's intentions and fail to recognise threats and red flag behaviours. We struggle to recognise when our own behaviour is likely to be misinterpreted. We are often as children subjected to punishments and training that deter our natural behaviours, such as stimming, and are forced to endure continuous discomfort and pain, such as bright lights and uncomfortable clothes. We get used to being in distress and hiding it and not being allowed to leave or make ourselves more comfortable, so we don't leave when a sexual assailant makes us distressed.

The OP, having seen the safeguarding trainwrecks that are GIDS and Mermaids, is absolutely correct to demand that her vulnerable daughter be safeguarded. Her daughter is at three times the risk of a neurotypical girl.

Autistic people feel like we are "wrong" in the world and gender dysphoria is a high-profile type of "wrong feeling" right now. It's easy to seize on the first explanation that looks sensible, even if it's not. This is how all the world's religions came about: [thing we cannot explain] must be caused by the gods.

I think I was in the same lecture! Really interesting. As Temple Grandin said, it’s all in the specifics…
I think most parents of profoundly autistic kids could benefit from joining a TATT group… off to see if I can join… if I can muster the energy!