Youths with gender dysphoria have higher rates of Asperger syndrome

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/mali-ywg011416.php

Public Release: 14-Jan-2016
Youths with gender dysphoria have higher rates of Asperger syndrome
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

A new study provides clinical data to support growing evidence that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more prevalent in children and adolescents with gender dysphoria than in the general population. Among youths seen at a pediatric gender clinic who were screened for ASD, 23% possibly or likely had Asperger syndrome, according to the study published in LGBT Health, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free to download on the LGBT Health website until February 13, 2016.

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