Mum waits 3 years for autism diagnosis for child - yet transgender diagnosis took a few months.

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This poor mother's at her wits end over NHS autism services failure to support her child - while the gender services took a few months to diagnose child as transgender and treat via Zoom.

Those who have children with autism might recognise the characteristics described here?

(Sorry it's from the Mainly Fail)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8523349/A-gender-clinic-agreed-help-boy-admits-change-mind.html

I don’t think so @SerenityNowwwww because I don’t think it’s needed in order to “pass”. IIRC testosterone does cause some minor facial changes. Growing a beard also helps massively.

I think trans men don’t face the same social issues that trans women do, purely because facial hair will always read “male”, even if they’re 5’ 3” and have womanly hips.

The facial hair always seems a bit whispy - you never see one with a beard like a lumberjack do you?

No, I think most trans men I’ve seen have a perpetual teenager vibe about them, visually, both in terms of height and bum fluff beard.

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When looking at trans men's faces I've often noticed that when you tune out 'balding & bearded', that is still a readably female face - due to eyes seeming larger and lips seeming fuller, due to generally smaller skull and jaw in females?

Yes, and the shape and size of the neck and forehead. I can’t find the link but there’s a video of people with those green screen dots attached to their bodies and you can tell who is male and who is female just from the dots, you don’t even have to see the actual body.

Humans are hot wired to recognise sex (and other things) in other humans. It’s a case of ‘something about’ them that you can see - shake, size, the way they move and interact with other people. It’s like if you see a female 6”2 short haired rugby player - you recognise them as a woman even if they don’t fit the ‘norm’.

My godfather was transsexual. I didn’t even realise he was born a woman until after he’d died and I was told. He had a full head of hair and a bushy beard. So I think some ftm can pass extremely well.
He was quite a large man so any womanly hips were deffo disguised!
I have no idea about autism. He died in his 60’s a few years back so no idea if that would have even been brought up when he transitioned. I do know before he transitioned that he was a lesbian. Obviously identified as a straight guy afterwards. I dunno, he was an old school transsexual and I’d like to think that he’d be really pissed off at the TRA ideology that’s been going on.