Research quality goes way down for stigmatized populations. There’s very little epidemiological evidence about trans people, period. Autism research is frequently “not even wrong” (there are fruit fly and zebrafish behavioral models of autism!)
“Shared common knowledge” within stigmatized communities (e.g. stuff that trans people learn from other trans people) can often outpace the state of the research; it’s higher-variance though, because rumor mills often misinform.
Research quality goes way down for stigmatized populations. There’s very little epidemiological evidence about trans people, period. Autism research is frequently “not even wrong” (there are fruit fly and zebrafish behavioral models of autism!)
“Shared common knowledge” within stigmatized communities (e.g. stuff that trans people learn from other trans people) can often outpace the state of the research; it’s higher-variance though, because rumor mills often misinform.