Have long considered my gender related to my (presumed, undiagnosed) autism. Even years before I considered my gender much. Granted, when I first found out a buddy of mine in high school later came out as trans, I was confused as to how someone who is autistic could be trans (or have a gender at all). Didn’t know about agender as an option back then, or it would have been more obvious I wasn’t “technically cis”. Granted, with how many other obvious things I ignored for the longest time, who knows?

Framing noncompliance as pathology is a long-standing strategy for enforcing the status quo,” Walker says. “The noncompliant can then be robbed of freedom, abused or interfered with in all manner of ways, in the name of ‘treatment.’

This seems to be were the fight will be in the future. Transphobes will try to strip agency away from anyone who is trans in order to ‘protect’ them from their own decision.