>>509037776They use love bombing to groom these impressionable and autistic losers. They start off by just being friendly with them, and then get the impressionable to open up about their problems. They suggest a lot of the misery they feel and their bad luck dating stems from being born in the wrong body. They encourage them to slowly change, like maybe grow their hair out longer or wear more feminine clothes, and then shower them with praise and affection when they do and post updates, validating them and associating crossdressing and cosplaying female (read: transitioning) as feeling good because it was the one real time a female online ever gave them the time of day. Its why the trans subreddit is full of selfies of what are objectively biological men who've done little in the way of attempting to pass female getting validation by other trans people.
Look up the various videos on the incel to trans pipeline or the links between autism and transitioning, and it explains why a majority of those who transition are mtf but it does also somewhat apply to ftm
Im gay and somewhat progressive, I've got a ftm cousin and he's rad, but I feel a majority of people who transition nowadays dont actually feel dysphoria, they crave validation and a sense of belonging. Sprinkle in a porn addiction (and transgender porn being pushed forward by various porn sites) and you have people who specifically identify as transgender, ie instead of trying to pass female and identify as female or mtf trans, they identify as just trans, and/or dont attempt to pass