fact that there was no literature discussing assigned female at birth kids identifying as transgender is because most research being done was specifically focusing on trans women those who were seen as boys at birth and transitioned to being seen as a woman in fact one of the only major research being done was by a man named ray blanchard who only studied trans women and also framed trans women as being autogynophilic another misinformed medical trope that i've spoken about in another video that i'll link down below but the point that i really want you to focus on here is that the attention as is most always often the case in many medical studies focuses on those who are seen as men at birth over those who are seen at women at birth especially in kids this happens quite often for example let's take a look at autism for a long time it was thought that boys were far more likely to present with autism than girls like vastly more in fact the cdc approximated that four boys for every girl had autism yet more recently it's been found that both women and men manifest autism about at the same rate and it manifests differently in men and women for a whole host of different reasons yet at the time most studies of autism focused on men so the signs of autism and how it specifically presented in women were often overlooked and not understood causing young women to miss being diagnosed at a young age of those diagnosed with autism at any point in their lives NUMBER_TOKEN of boys were diagnosed before age NUMBER_TOKEN compared with only NUMBER_TOKEN percent of women and this isn't even a mention that women are more likely to mask their symptoms of autism because they're taught to be more active socially than young boys are from a young age so autistic girls are often better equipped to at least hide their autistic traits by actively learning social cues and this happens all over medicine cis women and assigned female at birth folks are far less likely to be believed or diagnosed by a medical professional and this continues with trans folks regarding relative prevalence of specific identities two main trends are described widely in the literature first transgender females females assigned male at birth are usually identified at higher rates than transgender males males assigned female at birth in some studies the proportion of transgender women to men is as high as two to one however these ratios should not be taken as a definitive indication of actual population sizes given the limitations and methodology used to record them many studies survey subjects enrolled in plastic surgery endocrinology or primary care clinics and as such only reflect populations that are well integrated into existing health care systems and accessing care furthermore some estimates derive from global data and definitions of transgender and non-binary identities vary substantially across cultures so the lack of research on trans men or as schreier puts it this lack of research into young girls identifying as the opposite sex doesn't just come from there being less girls that come out as transgender but comes from a real bias in medicine yet schreyer is intentionally leaving that piece of information out leaving this implication that oh we think more boys were coming out as transgender but today there's more girls again begging that question and it's in this question that people are implicitly asking because of the information that she's presented or not presented that began that schreyer begins to place another theory in NUMBER_TOKEN brown university public health researcher lisa littman began studying the sudden spike in trans identification of teenage girls she concluded that pure
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