"We want nothing more than to be treated as human beings worthy of the same respect and dignity as those who are neurotypical."
#TransRightsReadathon
The authors recruited 10 trans autistic people to participate in a qualitative research study designed to foreground their lived experience, rather than treat them as objects of enquiry.
As an academic book, the accounts are given third-person, have a summary of each chapter, then a conclusion ⬇️
"NIHIL DE NOBIS, SINE NOBIS [Nothing about us, without us]
We wrote this book because we've noticed that while there is an increasing amount of research on the subject of gender identity and autism, there is distressingly little from the perspective of transgender and autistic people themselves."
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#TransRightsReadathon
#TransRightsReadathon 🏳️⚧️
I've finished reading the first of the ten chapters, Alex, a Canadian non-binary person of Jewish faith. Despite having to deal with professional medicalising of both their trans & autistic traits, Alex says they are lucky to have had an accepting & supportive family & rabbi. I was interested to learn that Judaism traditionally recognises six genders and that movement between those genders, to some degree, is accepted.
I'm reading "Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection" for #TransRightsReadathon ?️⚧️
As I'm back at work this week, it's unlikely I'll get to read more than this one book for the challenge. It's a series of summarised interviews with trans and autistic people, presenting their voices rather than talking about them as objects of study. It helps that the authors are both trans, neurodiverse academics.
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Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection | 
This is straightforward read, though, despite its academic slant: no complicated statistics, thankfully, as they do my brain in 🤯😆 I loved this book, and learned a lot from it that will inform both my work and my personal life.
The pride flag is one of several I found online for trans-autistic representation.
⬇️ 2y