Gender and sexuality appear to be more varied among autistic people than among neurotypical people. What do scientists know about the connection?

Autistic men show a greater imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling in the brain than autistic women do, which could explain sex differences in ‘camouflaging.’

People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are.

Like so many other events this year, autism’s biggest annual conference — the International Society for Autism Research meeting — was forced to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Autistic girls’ brains respond more strongly to social stimuli than do autistic boys’.

Brothers and sisters of people with autism are both about two to three times more likely than the general population to have an autistic child themselves.

Three widely used tests for assessing autism can accurately measure trait severity in girls and boys.

Brain imaging data reveal sex differences in regions linked to social contact.