>>81873862 (OP)Here's my attempt to explain the types of trans people that would if they had been born in any other society just end up being typical regular old men and women.
It's alot easier for mentally ill straight guys to justify transition. HRT has a far less significant effect on adult men, the MTF's who can pass and be seen or accepted as women its mostly a genetic dice roll after puberty, and the features caused by that aren't easily reversed. Estrogen is a lot better at preventing certain changes in post-pubescent men. For comparison lets focus on FTMs.
FTM transition by otherwise conventional but mentally ill straight women tends to induce a lot more physical changes that are irreversible without surgical intervention which is why its less common. A decent portion of the current waves of FTM trans are just teenage girls who wouldn't dare touch a vile of testosterone with a 10-foot pole, because deep down they know their just hopping on a social trend that could easily do more damage than good to their lives.
They don't actualize on the transition unlike MTFs because the reasoning tends to be different, and the consequences for doing such are irreversible (ie testosterone will make their bodies irreversibly more masculine) and they either like their body as is because they're conventional women or they don't want to piss away their woman status that gives them social leeway to be accepted as themselves (women) so they leverage it as a primarily social thing and make it about pronouns, clothes, presentation, superficial crap that means nothing.
They care more about the aesthetics and vibe of it, like trying to look like a kpop boy band idol, not a man, and the ones that fit this profile who do attempt a medical transition quickly wake up to the reality that they either can't cherrypick a medical transition and they have to go all the way or not at all and this makes them stop very quickly when they don't wanna look like a whole ass man in any capacity.
