USA: I want to restructure the trans community

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^ You can, so why not do it?

[quote="Magneto"]I wouldn't say we're in a minority. Only other transgirl I know is also ASD. But she's pretty messed up in other ways.

But yeah, we do exist.

I do wonder if trans* people with ASDs are less likely to get help, and more likely to commit suicide. It seems established that people with ASDs are more likely to be transgendered, but given that most gender-variant people keep it under wraps or don't transition (the figure is 1/250 for frequency, and quite possibly higher - it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if we were wrong by a whole order of magnitude on the frequency of pretty much everything psychological, simply because no-one bothered to check), perhaps people with ASDs are simply more likely to go ahead and do what they need to?[/quote]

I can vouch for the fact (in my experience) that I'm less likely to get help. I've been having a very difficult time recently finding a good counselor. I know other trans folk have had problems accessing services. Professionals can be hostile towards trans people. This is not good since they (psychologists and psychiatrists) are the gateway to receiving needed help and supports for ASD related challenges.

My son is in a relationship with a trans female..(she was born male and lives HER life has male)...she is amazing, not selfish, she will interact with the family and most of all she makes my son happy...she however hates the trans community because they are all out for themselves..(her words, not mine)....she lives with us in the uk...(she is American) because her family did not understand how she feels...and I admit I was a little "freaked out" about it all but she is open and i can ask her anything...and now I have gained the best daughter in law to be i could ever ask for....

Eh? She lives her life as male - so she hasn't transitioned?

If the twitstorms I see are any indication, there's a lot of mudslinging, often from transgendered people - defending cisphobia, for example (see, 'cis scum must die'). But then, I see that in pretty much every group, ranging from political, to religious, to which planets to colonise... I suppose it's because they are ultimately political questions, and politics is the mind killer.

Well, *she* lives *her* life as *female*... :p

My groups kind of like that, in a way. In that, it is more a tactic of keeping your mind off things than really helping much, but that's what works for some people.

I don't respond well to topic changes, that's for sure. Especially because I'm a natural ranter, I have to rant first to get things out of my system. The meetings designed to keep my mind off stuff don't really let me have a time to do that, so while I feel better in some ways, I also feel worse in others.

Pardon my ignorance, but how large is the transsexual/transgender community? Do any of us know what percentage of the broader LGBT community it is? I have never knowingly met a transgendered individual, so I must wonder if it's a small part of the already small broader LGBT community. Maybe that's why they are not organized into a coherent social force.

Well, that depends. Are you talking about people who have had SAS (sex alignment surgery; since everyone seems to be using different terms, I thought I'd throw that out there), people who have transitioned, people who have a gender identity that's not cis...? The former will get you the sorts of figures often bandied around of 1 in 10,000 people being transgendered, the latter is much closer to 1 in 100 (it seems to be around 1:200 people are trans*, but most of them aren't transitioned - or are and are in stealth).

Though I suspect, if people were able to be completely open about everything, we'd find that people who are deemed neurotypical (cisgendered, non-autistic, heterosexual, lacking any mental disorders etc) will be in a surprisingly small minority.