This is not surprising at all.
The autistic mindset tends to see things in black and white, and so if a child doesn’t feel like a girl or does not want to be a girl or female — and this might be because they don’t feel pretty enough to be a girl, are fat, hate having periods, etc. — then they believe they must be a boy, or if they play with boy's toys, like sport, are a tomboy, more masculine, want to know what it is like being a boy or being actually really male with an actual real boy or man's body and everything, imitate a boy by peeing standing up, etc. that they must be a "boy" or have always been "male".

that is not how it works.
This is accelerated or exacerbated by social media, like Instagram, peer pressure, teachers, gender "therapists", gaslighting, manipulation, etc. or parents being told that if they do not allow their son or daughter to take hormones, have irreversible dangerous surgery, etc. that the severely mentally ill child, teen, or young adult will commit self-murder or suicide.
It’s utterly disgusting how these poor kids, teens, and young adults aren’t getting the appropriate support they need.
All of our systems and institutions are compromised and corrupted in the Western world, and even other regions. But the globalist "leaders" poured lots of $€£ into trans programs both in the Western world and elsewhere, when there is no need for this at all and it is a complete waste of money.
I'm aware, not exactly a hot take or major news.
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on March 12, 2023 Children with autism make up an outsized proportion of the transgender-identified population, and autism spectrum traits make them particularly vulnerable to thought patterns that can lead youth to pursue gender transitions...
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