Hey fam, it's me Amara.

Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

April is autism acceptance meant, and there's so much neurodiversity within the trans community.

In fact, one large 2020 study showed that trans and gender non-conforming people

are three to six times more likely to be autistic than cis people.

And despite the fact that these numbers are used to discredit the very idea of transness by the anti-trans hate machine,

there are critical intersections at being both neurodivergent and trans that are critical to unpack.

That's why today I wanted to explore what autism is, what it looks like to be trans and autistic,

and to celebrate the neurodiversity within our community.

And there's no better person to do this with than the groundbreaking social psychologist,

an author of Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devin Price, who's changed the game in our understanding of what it means to be autistic and trans.

If we don't see autism as a pathology, as something wrong with someone, then we don't necessarily

need to believe that it needs to be diagnosed, right? Like, I also self-diagnosed my transness.

But before we get to that absolutely riveting conversation, I'm so excited

to announce that the TransLash podcast has been nominated for a Webby Award. Can you hear the

applause and the balloons that are falling down all around me? We were nominated in the podcast

interview slash talk show category for our episode Trans Voices on Gaza,

and I couldn't be prouder of that episode. We spent a lot of time on it and worked really hard

to get it right. So please go and vote using the link in the episode description. We really

appreciate the support and would love to actually take home a Webby since we've been

nominated three times. So with that, and I are urging you to go cast your vote for us, let's start

it as always with some trans joy. So often autistic people are reduced solely to their autism.

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