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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fluffymainecoons" data-source="post: 1419" data-attributes="member: 194">Hi ProfessorWorm, i do know that Autistics play a big part in the LGBT community.I’m trans ftm and for the past few years i yearly Attend a gender identity clinic called Tavistock & Portman trust-the consultant psych I have there specialises in gender dysphoria in adults with autism and/or intellectual disability, I have both conditions and didn’t understand gender to Any degree until I was around 25 and I was being taught by my care homes tutor what gender actually meant,to me everyone was the same generic shape.For me,it’s took longer to get to the Stage of being prescribed testosterone and signed off for surgery (unfortunately that was meant to happen this year just before the covid stuff) as the last care home I was in was run by a religious fanatic who didn’t believe transgender Exists she kept hiding all the letters from the gender clinic until I was discharged from them due to lack of my staff answering....,my mental capacity to understand was also questioned by my own 2 support staff who went with me, It was also questioned by a GP who had never met me before,he had only had a phone chat with my intellectual disability nurse about me, thankfully Dr James Barrett saw I have capacity and even said my own support staff (two staff always go with me when visiting any distances) should be supporting me to make decisions, not fighting against them because they disagree with being trans, i left that meeting feeling so happy and they said he was rude lol.sorry,I’ve rambled on as I usually do<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦‍♂️" title="Man facepalming    :man_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming:" /> but yes there most definitely is Common gender differences Amongst the spectrum,there should be a survey taken.</blockquote>

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