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Table 2 Proportions of autistic and non-autistic females on gender identity and sexual orientation

From: Gender identity, sexual orientation and adverse sexual experiences in autistic females

  

Autistic (n = 134)

Non-autistic (n = 161)

ZDiff

p value

n (%)

n (%)

Gender identity

% Female

108 (80.6)

147 (91.3)

2.50

.003

% Male

4 (3.0)

2 (1.2)

1.25

.105

% Other

22 (16.4)

12 (7.5)

2.45

.032

Sexual orientation

% Heterosexual

41 (30.6)

88 (54.6)

3.30

< .001

% Bisexual

34 (25.4)

27 (16.8)

1.70

.048

% Homosexual

59 (44.0)

46 (28.6)

2.68

.003

% Asexual

0 (0)

0 (0)

n/a

n/a

 

% Transattracted

0 (0)

0 (0)

n/a

n/a

 

% Questioning

0 (0)

0 (0)

n/a

n/a

  1. Sexual orientation of participants has been drawn from the same dataset as Pecora et al. [28]. Proportions of reported sexual orientation by diagnostic group and birth sex have been reported in Pecora et al. [28]