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Understanding Double Empathy in TGD Autistic Healthcare
The blog discusses healthcare inequities faced by gender diverse autistic adults, emphasizing the Double Empathy Problem. It highlights systemic barriers, biases in healthcare, and the challenges posed by transmedicalism. Recommendations for practitioners include checking biases, using inclusive language, and valuing lived experiences to foster equitable healthcare environments.
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Enhancing Accessibility for Autistic Clients in Substance Use Services
I am part-way through my SCDTP internship with Portsmouth City Council, focusing on enhancing accessibility for Autistic clients in substance use services. Utilising findings from the Autistic Substance Use Network, I am auditing training and Recovery Hub environments while collaborating with LGBTQIA+ recovery workers to develop a comprehensive accessibility blueprint.
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The Importance of Accessibility at London Trans+ Pride
I attended my first London Trans+ Pride with a friend, experiencing an accessible event that drew over 100,000 people. Highlights included an Accessible Bloc, interpreter support, and designated quiet spaces. The march emphasized solidarity, joy, and inclusivity, ensuring everyone could participate fully. I look forward to returning next year.
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Navigating Academic Challenges for Collective Freedom
The author seeks a liberating academic environment focused on collective growth and empowerment, emphasizing the interconnectedness of various advocacy efforts, particularly for trans and Autistic individuals. They critique the pressures within academia that stifle true advocacy and community, vowing to continue their work rooted in love and connection despite challenges.
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Healing from the Gender Binary: A Call to Action for Allies
The recent Supreme Court ruling has revealed strong support and unexpected silence regarding trans+ rights among my colleagues and friends. While some offer unwavering allyship, others remain disengaged, demanding emotional labor without acknowledgment of existing bigotry. True allyship requires rejecting harmful attitudes and addressing personal biases shaped by patriarchal systems.
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Understanding the Gender Gap in Autism Diagnosis
The historical perception of autism as primarily a male condition has led to a significant diagnosis gap for women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals. While theories like the Female Autism Phenotype have emerged, they often reinforce gender stereotypes and exclude marginalized groups, complicating access to support and erasing diverse autistic experiences.
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Closing Spectrum 10K: A Victory for Autistic Advocacy
Today the Autism Research Centre have published the Spectrum 10K consultation and what they plan to do next. During their consultation period they heard from over 500 Autistic people and parents/carers of Autistic children.The gap between the consultation finishing and their making the consultation public has been a long one (read Unpaused and Still Unethical).…
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Book review: A Guide to Autism and Psychosis by David Gray-Hammond
I have had the pleasure to be one of the first readers of David Gray-Hammond‘s newest book A Guide to Autism and Psychosis: Personal and Professional Insights From A Psychotic Mind. His previous books are informative, deep and personal. They read like a love letter to the Autistic community and a protest placard to improve…
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Open Letter Against Puberty Blocker Ban
The team at AIM for the Rainbow have written an open letter airing our concerns about the puberty blocker ban. The open letter at a glance: The Autistic community widely and with great indignation condemns the recent ban on puberty blockers for transgender youth and demands its immediate reversal. We call on the government to…
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Reflecting on Four Years of Autism Advocacy Online
