Fig. 1.

Distribution of Social Responsiveness Scale (total score) and its subscales among the participants based on the study group, site of recruitment, at-birth-assigned sex, and gender identity. In all subscales, transgender participants had significantly higher scores compared to cisgender participants (SocAw, p = .021; for all the rest p < .001). At-birth-assigned females had significantly higher scores in Social Cognition (p = .007), Autistic Mannerism (p = .018) and total SRS score (p = .031). Participants recruited from UCLA had significantly higher scores than those recruited from KI only on the Social Awareness subscale (p = .002). KI, Karolinska Institute; UCLA, University of California Los Angeles