ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Mentalising Moderates the Link between Autism Traits and Current Gender Dysphoric Features in Primarily Non-autistic, Cisgender Individuals.
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- Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Gender Dysphoria Measures in Autistic Samples.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Gender Dysphoria/Incongruence. A systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Does Autogynephilia Theory Still Provide a Useful Explanatory Framework for Understanding Transfeminine Identity and Sexuality?Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Gender Diversity, Gender Dysphoria/Incongruence, and the Intersection with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Updated Scoping Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Self-Reported Multidimensional Gender Identity in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Implicit and explicit gender identification in autistic and nonautistic gender clinic-referred youth, and their caregivers.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Obsessional thinking and autistic traits are each uniquely associated with greater traits of gender dysphoria in clinical and nonclinical adult samples.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Research methods at the intersection of gender diversity and autism: A scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- The Sexual Double Standard toward Non-Heterosexual Populations: Evaluations of Sexually Active Gay Men and Lesbian Women.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Theories on the Link Between Autism Spectrum Conditions and Trans Gender Modality: a Systematic Review.Review journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Review
- Gender-specific play behavior in relation to autistic traits and behavioral difficulties at the age of seven in the SELMA study.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Intersection of Autism and Transgender and Nonbinary Identities: Community and Academic Dialogue on Research and Advocacy.Autism in adulthood · 2023Article
- The autism spectrum among transgender youth: default mode functional connectivity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Intersectional Stigma for Autistic People at Work: A Compound Adverse Impact Effect on Labor Force Participation and Experiences of Belonging.Autism in adulthood · 2022Article
- Implicit and Explicit Gender-Related Cognition, Gender Dysphoria, Autistic-Like Traits, and Mentalizing: Differences Between Autistic and Non-Autistic Cisgender and Transgender Adults.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
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Abstract
The co-occurrence between autism and gender dysphoria has received much attention recently. We found that, among 101 adults from the general population number of autism traits, as measured using the autism-spectrum quotient was associated significantly with recalled and current gender dysphoric traits. Furthermore, performance on an objective measure of mentalising, such as the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test was associated with current gender dysphoric traits, but most importantly it moderated the relation between number of autism traits and number of current gender dysphoric traits, such that the association was significant only when mentalising ability was relatively low. Results suggest mentalising may represent a contributing factor to the relation between autism and gender dysphoric traits in the general population.
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