Roald A. Øien

Fly View Productions / iStock Roald Øien Professor, Arctic University of Norway For the past five years, Roald Øien has been stress testing the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), a go-to screen for autism introduced in 2001. His results are far from encouraging: The screen misses more than 70 percent of children who are later diagnosed with autism, while mostly flagging those without the condition.

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In this systematic map review, we aimed (1) at identifying studies including the co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD) between 1946 and 2018, and (2) to present the papers included in this systematic map review to provide authors in the field of GD, sexuality and ASD with an important database of studies focusing on this very complex topic.