Table 2.
Profile | Ongoing Gender Discovery | Interpersonal Influences | ||||||||||||
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Participant | Autistic? |
Gender at baseline | Sex assigned at birth | Ages followed |
Treatment requested | Wants more life experiences | Exploring gender identity | Shifts in gender identity | Worries about coming out | Lack of support for gender | Perceived peer pressure | Delusions/thought instability | Reluctance towards maleness | |
Profile 1 (25%) Requests ➔ No Longer Requests | 1 | N | M | F | 17 | H | * | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
2 | N | M | F | 14–15 | H/S | ✓ | ||||||||
3 | Y | F | M | 16 | H | ✓ | ||||||||
4 | Y | F | M | 18–22 | H/S | ✓ | ||||||||
5 | Y | F | M | 14 | H | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Profile 2 (45%) Requests ➔ No Longer Requests ➔ Requests | 6 | N | F | M | 16–17 | H | ✓ | * | ✓ | |||||
7 | N | F | M | 16–18 | H | ✓ | ||||||||
8 | N | M | F | 15–18 | H | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
9 | Y | NB | F | 16–18 | S | ✓ | ||||||||
10 | Y | NB | F | 12–17 | H/S | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
11 | N | F | M | 4–19 | H | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
12 | Y | NB | F | 12–16 | H | * | ✓ | |||||||
13 | Y | NB | F | 16–20 | H | ✓ | * | |||||||
14 | Y | F | M | 12–15 | H | * | ||||||||
Profile 3 (5%) Requests ➔ No Longer Requests ➔ Considering | 15 | N | M/NB | F | 17–20 | S | * | |||||||
Profile 4 (10%) Requests ➔ Oscillation ➔ Requests/No Longer Requests | 16a | Y | Q | M | 17 | H/S | ✓ | |||||||
17b | N | M | F | 15–20 | S | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Profile 5 (10%) Requests ➔ Treatment Completed | 18 | N | M | F | 16–18 | H | ✓ | |||||||
19 | Y | NB | F | 17–20 | H | ✓ | ||||||||
Profile 6 (5%) Requests ➔ Treatment Terminated | 20 | N | F | M | 12–17 | H | ✓ | |||||||
Inter-rater reliability (κ) | 0.77 | 0.34 | 0.50 | 1.00 | 0.64 | 0.77 | 0.77 | 0.77 |
Legend:
ended at no longer requests
ended at requests
= inconsistencies between coders Y = has autism diagnosis
N = does not have autism diagnosis
M = transmasculine gender identity or male sex designated at birth F = transfeminine gender identity or female sex designated at birth Q = queer
NB = nonbinary gender
H = gender-affirming hormone therapy (excludes blockers) S = gender-affirming surgery