Autism Acceptance Day: Why autistic inclusion benefits everyone in the LGBTQ+ community and beyond

Today (2 April) marks Autism Acceptance Day – a celebration of the more than 1% of the human population who live with autism.

Originally known as ‘World Autism Awareness Day’, the autistic community has reclaimed the event (and its name) to focus on acceptance rather than simple ‘awareness’. Why is it of particularly relevance to the LGBTQ+ community? Because there is a notable but little-understood correlation between being autistic and being LGBTQ+.

The largest study committed to the topic of autism and gender identity shows that “[eople who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic.” There have been many other studies published in the last 10 years that show that the rate of

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