Two teens or younger adults who present as girls/women embrace each other while wrapped in a rainbow flag.
By eakkachaih at Envato Elements.

The cause of that correlation isn't, at the end of the day, important. What's important is that you treat your trans (or queer) young people who are also autistic with dignity and respect and that you take their gender identity (and sexual orientation) seriously. Denying that autistic young people can also be TGNC is one of the ways adults undermine youth identity.

In addition to what's below, you may be interested in this question in the FAQ: "Why don't you put autism in with disabilities?"

You can also find content related to autism on these survey pages:

"My autism is inseparable from who I am as a person, and therefore inseparable from my transness and gender identity. My autism effects how I think, feel, and perceive social constructs such as gender- it also effects my relationship with identity and labels, and so my being autistic and my being trans intertwine and are both intrinsic parts of myself and identity."
A tween with a sweatshirt and cammo pants holds their cat on their lap.
A young, non-binary individual with autism finds comfort and understanding in the presence of their resilient three-legged feline friend. (Photo and description from iStock.)
"My autism and my transness are inherently connected due to gender being a social construct that I don't fully understand. I have thus put my own meaning to things in order to better operate in a world that holds social constructs to such an extreme."
"I'm autistic! There's a pretty large amount of intersectionality between those two groups so I find acceptance in most parts of both."