No, they are not. (I’m not clear on where you are going with your questions. I can’t tell if you are asking out of genuine curiosity or if you are trying to start an argument.)

No. I am referring to the fact that trans people are more likely to be neurodivergent and neurodivergent people are more likely to be trans.

Recommended Reading

Menakem, R. (2017). My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press

Johnson, R. (2023). Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection. Penguin Random House

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It is a continual process and practice, as opposed to a fixed destination. (10)

When we cultivate our somatic bandwidth, we can learn to be with diverse experiences, including those who subvert normativity.

Even those of us who think we are progressive and liberal need to work toward unraveling the ways we continue to have unconscious attachments to normativity. (9)

Somatic bandwidth is a term that was coined by Rae Johnson and refers to the ability to be comfortable with feeling and witnessing a range of sensations and embodied emotions. (8)

In order to shift this, we all need to learn to cultivate our somatic bandwidth so that we can tolerate the feelings that arise when we witness ambiguity and complexity. (7)

Their nervous system perceives that there is a threat where there is no threat, and their nervous system automatically reacts, usually with a fight response of anger, judgment, mistrust, and attempts to control the other. (6)

When they witness people who are living their life without adhering to these standards of normativity, they feel threatened. (5)

Many people have a fear of ambiguity and complexity, and therefore live their life according to these standards of normativity, so that they don’t have to feel those feelings of fear. (4)

This is an all-or-nothing way of thinking, which of course is usually not the reality of actual experience, but many people hold tightly to this perspective. (3)

This can apply to gender, sexuality, race, culture, and disability, including neurodivergence.

This often manifests in the idea that white, cis, straight, and able-bodied is the norm and everyone else is an other. (2)