Rates of autism are much higher in trans-identified people.

In an analysis¹ of five large datasets, “trangender and gender diverse” individuals were 3.03 to 6.36 times more likely to be autistic than those who do not claim an alternative gender identity.

1. Warrier, V., Greenberg, D.M., Weir, E. et al. Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Nature Communications 11, 3959 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17794-1 ↩︎