>>515068683
You guys really don't understand a lot of stuff about being trans or trans girls. Some people are so incredibly close to being right but never fully here. I've known I've wanted to be a girl since I was 5, I'm intersex (not my genitals, but I have a genetic aberration that makes me naturally look like a girl and not produce test), I knew what being trans was at 10, and I've been on HRT for 12-14 years not really sure.
Autism does have something to do with it yes but it is not an explicit link. If you reframe how you think about trans girls and look at ancient civilization and mouse utopia.
The reason I knew I wanted to be a girl at such a young age is because of these reasons:
1) Kids are extremely smart, especially autistic kids like me
2) I was effeminate and written out of the social heirachy
This is all it takes to realize your life would be better as a girl and to start developing a complex in your head over years and decades that being a girl would fix all of your issues. It doesn't always happen this explicitly but for a lot of girls it does. You see gender swap and crossdressing stuff and etc and it reinforces it. Then you learn what being trans is -- I CAN be a girl -- and that activates your brain to just chase that relentlessly so you can be happy finally and fit in.
So I chased it, and so did others in this exact way. The dream of being a girl, of course, is a dream -- but looking like one and being cute isn't. I get attention and love and I fit in and I look exactly how I want to finally and feel free. I'm literally a normal person besides this. Most trans girls are. We represent a fraction of the third gender in Western society and exist outside of gender norms usually especially as girls mature and stop being as interested in passing and femininity and etc and more with feeling comfortable and being androgynous and cute and just embracing yourself not being a woman. Every trans girl I know basically is v. normal&intelligent&cute&nerdy.