{"id":3937,"date":"2022-06-14T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2022-06-14T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T04:11:13","slug":"autism-and-lgbtq-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Autism and LGBTQ+ Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The incidence of non-usual gender identities is much higher among autistics than in the rest of the population. A<\/span>A<\/span>S<\/span>C<\/span>E<\/span>N<\/span>D<\/span><\/strong>‘s<\/strong> <\/mark>June 25<\/strong> program ( NOT the usual 3rd Saturday!<\/font><\/em>) honors Gay Pride Month,<\/font><\/strong> respecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other people. The AASCEND program (the day before San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade<\/strong>) will feature a panel of <\/mark><\/font>autistics in the LGBTQ+ community,<\/font><\/strong> responding to questions from erstwhile AASCEND chairperson Jack Fagan.<\/font><\/strong> If you are not comfortable with discussion of gender and related issues then please feel free to sit this one out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Zoom meeting URL and password will be sent as the date approaches. If you are not on our email list, click here<\/a>. No registration is necessary.<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Do you identify as autistic and LGBTQ+? Please share your experience. We particularly invite attendees on the autism spectrum to offer their experience and perspectives in discussion of <\/mark>this important topic.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who: <\/b>Adults on the autism spectrum, families, mentors and professionals all welcome. For more information, please contact: info@aascend.org
When:<\/strong> Sat June 25, 10am \u2013 11am (approx.) <\/strong><\/span>
Where: Online via Zoom.<\/span><\/strong> URL and password will be emailed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The incidence of non-usual gender identities is much higher among autistics than in the rest of the population. AASCEND‘s June 25 program ( NOT the usual 3rd Saturday!) honors Gay Pride Month, respecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}