There is a grain of truth in all of that.

It was essentially an IT department under the executive branch, that I don’t think anybody had even been staffed at since September. Trump basically renamed it and gave it a new mission statement.

They picked a department, and converted it into Doge. They did this essentially to bypass congressional approval, because the department was already there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service?wprov=sfla1

And that’s not what the article says. It says that there is a correlation between the two.

I’m trans and not autistic. But I do see that correlation in a number of my trans and autistic peers. Up thread there were some very good comments on why this might be from posters that I assume are both trans and autistic.

Well that’s what Trump is trying to do so.

I guess you and the fascist are getting your wish.

Seriously though, gender is older than Homo sapiens. It’s about division of reproductive labor and the classes that humans form around that

The gender binary needs to go. Gender inequality needs to go. But people are going to have gender as long as we have class distinctions and we are a long way from outgrowing that.

Yes, I literally feel the pain of others. Not as though it happened to me but enough to wince if I see most animals get hurt (aside from insects).

I’m more sensitive than normal though. Hyper-awareness from abuse. It’s also isolating and lonely, even though I’m not on the spectrum.