Faculty of Behaviour and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, TR-3B-84, van der Boerchorststraat 9, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Scientific Centre for Care & Welfare (Tranzo), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Dec;48(12):4070-4078. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3702-y.
Prior research has shown an elevation in autism traits and diagnoses in individuals seen for gender related consultation and in participants self-identifying as transgender. To investigate this relationship between autism and gender identity from a new angle, we compared the self-reported autism traits and sensory differences between participants with autism who did or did not identify with their assigned sex (i.e. cisgender or trans and non-binary, respectively). We found broad elevation of most cognitive autism traits in the trans and non-binary group (those who identified with a gender other than their assigned gender), and lower visual and auditory hypersensitivity. We contrast these data to existing hypotheses and propose a role for autistic resistance to social conditioning.
先前的研究表明，在因性别相关问题而就诊的个体以及自我认同为跨性别的参与者中，自闭症特征和自闭症诊断的发病率有所上升。为了从一个新的角度研究自闭症和性别认同之间的关系，我们比较了自闭症患者（分别为顺性别和跨性别和非二进制性别认同者）中那些自我报告的自闭症特征和感官差异。我们发现，跨性别和非二进制群体（即那些认同自己出生时被指定的性别以外的性别的人）中大多数认知自闭症特征广泛升高，而视觉和听觉过度敏感则较低。我们将这些数据与现有的假设进行对比，并提出了自闭症对社会影响的抵抗力的作用。
