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Autism and the LGBTQIA+ community
Season 2
Published 5 years, 3 months ago
Description
On this episode of the Aspect podcast ‘a different brilliant’, Orion Kelly is joined by radio host and member of Aspect's LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee, Ruby Mountford. Orion and Ruby explore the topic of autism and its connection with the LGBTQIA+ Community.
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Aspect's Gender Diversity and Autism Webinar
There is a very strong relationship between autism and transgender identities. Research undertaken in 2020 at the University of Cambridge in the UK, found that Autistic people are three-to-six times more likely not to identify with the sex they were assigned to at birth than non-autistic people. You can learn more in our Webinar on Gender Diversity and autism