“I had this fear that as an autistic person, they would take me less seriously”: Trans autistic experiences of epistemic (in)justice in gender-affirming care

Background A disproportionate number of transgender and nonbinary people are autistic, and research suggests that trans autistic people experience significant barriers and challenges to accessing gender-affirming care. Much of the existing research in this area focuses on determining why trans people are more likely to be autistic, and less research has attended to trans autistic people's lived experiences of accessing gender-affirming care.