Increased Gender Variance in Autism Spectrum Disorders and
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder- John Strang et al
www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1457451-0
"It could be theorized that excessively rigid or ‘black and white’ thinking could result in [an autistic] child’s rigidly interpreting mild or moderate gender nonconforming inclinations as more intense or absolute.”
"Comorbidity of Asperger syndrome and gender identity disorder"
www.researchgate.net/profile/Urs_Hepp/publication/7762955_Comorbidity_of_Asperger_syndrome_and_gender_identity_disorder/links/0912f5117d33b2cb63000000/Comorbidity-of-Asperger-syndrome-and-gender-identity-disorder.pdf
Biological female patient with G.I.D.
"As expected for AS, we noticed over-developed logical
thinking and accentuation of logical-abstract abilities,
as well as an imbalance of low emotionality and a
high level of instrumental, non-emotional attributes including
activity, lack of emotionality and perseverance.
These characteristics are generally associated with masculinity
and may have led to a subjective consciousness
in our patient of being male. In this regard, primary cognition
and perception in AS may be interpreted as masculine
attributed and pave the way to the development of
female-to-male GID. The adaptation of the male gender
identity, from early life on, possibly enabled the patient
to better integrate the lack of emotionality and the accentuated
logical-abstract abilities. The extremely high
level of masculinity can be interpreted as an additional
compensatory effort to accentuate the biologically absent
male side.
Taking this into account, we believe that, over the
years, our patient has developed GID as a consequence
of adopting male emotional and cognitive traits due to
AS. Following this argument, GID in this patient could
be regarded as a sequel to AS"
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904453/
"Autism Spectrum Disorders in Gender Dysphoric Children and Adolescents"
" Feminine interests of many gender dysphoric young boys with ASD concerned soft tissues, glitter, and long hair and could be understood as a preference for specific sensory input typical for ASD.
While almost all adolescents with GID are sexually attracted to individuals of their birth sex (Smith et al. 2005; Wallien and Cohen-Kettenis 2008), the majority of the gender dysphoric adolescents with ASD was sexually attracted to partners of the other sex. This may be clinically relevant since adult transsexuals not sexually attracted to their natal sex show in some studies less satisfactory postoperative functioning compared with birth-sex attracted transsexuals (Smith et al. 2005).
Most individuals with co-occurring gender dysphoria and ASD fulfilled the strict criteria of autistic disorder. For several youth with ASD, their ASD-specific rigidity made enduring gender variant feelings extremely difficult to handle. After all, in our society a considerable amount of flexibility is needed to deal with gender variant feelings. Normally developing young children (age 3–5) display more rigidity in gender-related beliefs than older children; this rigidity decreases after the age of five (Ruble et al. 2007). Individuals with ASD may not reach this level of flexibility in their gender development.
In most gender dysphoric children, gender dysphoria will cease when they reach puberty"
[it is necessary] " to disentangle whether the gender dysphoria evolved from a general feeling of being ‘different’ or a ‘core’ cross-gender identity."
Susan Bradley (Canadian GID specialist) - news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/susan-bradley-how-trans-activists-are-unethically-influencing-autistic-children-to-change-genders "How trans activists are unethically influencing autistic children to change genders" There is an "aggressive approach by adult trans activists in recruiting adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome or other types of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to their cause." "Adolescents struggling to deal with their quirky cerebral wiring do not need to be told they are “a girl trapped in a boy’s body” or vice versa, she says. Nevertheless, Ehrhard notes, many parents are buying into this completely unscientific hypothesis." "Over the last few years I have been asked to consult around three biologically female teens with no prior history of cross gender wishes. In adolescence, these three individuals became aware of homoerotic feelings, but were uncomfortable about them. After searching the internet to find others like themselves, they began to feel that the issue was not their sexual orientation, but that they were in fact “trans.”
In interviewing them, their history revealed prolonged and intense feelings of rejection and loneliness and a sense of “not fitting in” with their female peers. As with many girls and women with ASD, they pretended to conform socially, but failed to have close confiding relationships and had often felt bullied and rejected. Some were depressed by adolescence and often had suicidal thoughts, if not overt behaviours. Further assessment in all three cases led to my diagnosing these high-functioning individuals as having ASD."
"In two cases parents expressed anxiety over the speed with which the gender professionals involved accepted their teenagers’ self-diagnosis, demonstrated by recommendations for puberty blocking agents after a single visit."
"to ensure that the path they seemed to be choosing had been thought through" [is] "a difficult task for ASD teens because of their difficulty with self-reflection and abstract thinking."