Autistic and non-autistic transgender youth are similar in gender development and sexuality phenotypes.

Autor: Fischbach AL; Division of Neuropsychology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Center for Neuroscience, Children's National Research Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Hindenach A; Division of Neuropsychology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Center for Neuroscience, Children's National Research Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., van der Miesen AIR; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Yang JS; Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA., Buckley OJ; Division of Neuropsychology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Center for Neuroscience, Children's National Research Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Song M; Division of Neuropsychology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Center for Neuroscience, Children's National Research Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Campos L; Division of Neuropsychology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Center for Neuroscience, Children's National Research Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Strang JF; Division of Neuropsychology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Center for Neuroscience, Children's National Research Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The British journal of developmental psychology [Br J Dev Psychol] 2024 Apr 13. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 13.
DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12486
Abstrakt: Increasing rhetoric regarding the common intersection of autism and gender diversity has resulted in legislation banning autistic transgender youth from accessing standard of care supports, as well as legislative efforts banning all youth gender care in part justified by the proportional over-occurrence of autism. Yet, no study has investigated whether autistic and non-autistic transgender youth present fundamentally different gender-related phenotypes. To address this gap, we extensively characterized autism, gender diversity, and sexuality among autistic and non-autistic transgender binary youth (N = 66, M age  = 17.17, SD age  = 2.12) in order to investigate similarities and/or differences in gender and sexuality phenotypes. Neither autism diagnostic status nor continuous autistic traits were significantly related to any gender or sexuality phenotypes. These findings suggest that the developmental and experiential features of gender diversity are very similar between autistic and non-autistic transgender adolescents. Future research is needed to determine whether the similarity in profiles is maintained over time into adulthood.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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