[Review] The missing clinical guidance: a scoping review of care for autistic transgender and gender-diverse people

The co-occurrence of autism and gender diversity has been increasingly studied in the past decade. It is estimated that ∼11% of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals are diagnosed with autism. However, there is insufficient knowledge about appropriate gender-related clinical care for autistic TGD individuals. We performed a scoping review of current clinical guidance for the care of TGD individuals to identify what was said about autism. Clinical guidance documents were searched in PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Embase, Guidelines International Network, and TRIP medical database, as well as reference mining and expert recommendation.

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Settembre 2024

Association of Political Assaults With the Health of Transgender and Nonbinary Persons

Until recently, we could not begin to understand the health and well-being of transgender and nonbinary communities. The rampant practice of erasing transgender and nonbinary populations in public health and scientific programming and data collection systems guaranteed that transgender and nonbinary communities were invisible. To rectify this, numerous institutions, such as the National Institutes of Health; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; US Office of Science and Technology Policy; and US Office of Management and Budget, have called for improved data collection to facilitate greater understanding of the health and well-being of transgender and nonbinary populations and of how gender identity shapes opportunities, experiences with discrimination, and outcomes through the life course. Consequently, a more detailed picture of self-reported gender identity is now available, providing not only a single snapshot but also a composite image of the health of the transgender and nonbinary population over time. What we are seeing in the data are the harms of policies directed against transgender and nonbinary people.

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Agosto 2024