Autism and gender dysphoria - whack-a-mole?

[AmaryllisNightAndDay]

Came upon this:

Fortunato A, Giovanardi G, Innocenzi E, Mirabella M, Caviglia G, Lingiardi V, Speranza AM. Is It Autism? A Critical Commentary on the Co-Occurrence of Gender Dysphoria and Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Homosex. 2022 Jun 7;69(7):1204-1221. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1905385. Epub 2021 Apr 14. PMID: 33852376.

From the abstract:
"We hypothesize that the traits often classified as autistic could be more accurately related to the distress and discomfort evoked by GD."

The journal doesn't look like a journal of psychatry or autism. I can only see the abstract from here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33852376/ but I think that this bit "to provide, through the description of a clinical case, our reading and a possible interpretation of the correlation of these two conditions" means that they are talking about just one patient.

Reference for my above comment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2121238

I just like to add this picture from the interview with Temple Grandin in the Guardian today.

Shoot. Wrong autism thread. Sorry

@Lovelyricepudding That's a very good question and I didn't get a clear answer from the paper. This kind of paper isn't a proper clinical trial it's a "case study" where medics report and reflect on an interesting case they have dealt with. Case studies aren't usually fully objective and neutral, they can't be. But yes they could have said more about that ADOS procedure.

It was good to read though - I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise!