"We fear that we have had front-row seats to a medical scandal."

The Daily Mail reports that Australian doctors, writing in the Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders, stated that

"The few studies employing diagnostic criteria for ASD suggest a prevalence of 6-26 per cent in transgender populations."

Notably, they added, that this was "higher than the general population, but no different from individuals attending psychiatric clinics."

The Australians also quoted 'definitive findings' from a US study of almost 300,000 children, which discovered those with autism "were over four times as likely to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria" compared to those without autism.

Last year The Mail on Sunday unearthed an internal study by GIDS in London, also known as the Tavistock Clinic, which found 35 per cent of children and teenagers referred there between 2011 and 2017 had "moderate to severe autistic traits."

A recent study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that 80 percent of gender minority students report having mental health problems, nearly double the rate of "cisgender" students.