This is all irrelevant. Your journey belongs to you, from beginning to end. The only control people can have over you is what you allow, and trust me, you can't prevent it by all sorts of means.
In short, just do what the fuck makes you feel good folks.
While I agree with your sentiment
it doesn't really add to the discussion... What's you opinion on the whether the treatments should be funded? Or about the legalities of gender recognition...
I don't think anything has a "right to life" at the moment of conception. Women have the right (or should have the right) to terminate first trimester pregnancies for any reason, autism or otherwise. If I had kids I personally wouldn't want them to be autistic or transgendered. I'd rather have an autistic kid than a trans kid though.
Not exactly what I meant. If the woman wants to have a child and a test says they might be autistic, should they, morally speaking, terminate and try again? Or even if a test said they might be trans. Sure the mother has every right to her body, but if she's committed to seeing a pregnancy to full term, then she should be willing to play the genetic lottery. In that context an autistic conception should have as much right to go full term as any other.
I would only screen for life threatening conditions, like heart defects and the like. And let the rest come as they may. I have a really unique view on life that autism and being trans afford me, I wouldn't deliberately seek to remove the possibility of someone else having a similar view on life. A society is enriched by it's uniqueness.
btw I don't mean because it would be easier for me or whatever - I mean I would want my child to have the best chance of a decent life and I think being autistic makes that harder and being trans makes that even more harder. If I had kids and they turned out to be autistic or trans I would love them just the same. I would be surprised a child of a trans person was trans though, and maybe worried about what conclusions that would lead people to make
I disagree. Autism or Trans is no more or less difficult than any other way of being. They have downsides but they also have positives, just as with everything else.