>>150999307
It's less autism specifically and moreso general mental illness, depression & a lack of self-esteem. A lot of miserable/vunerable people will transition because they feel inadequate as themselves and think that transitioning is a catch-all solution to general anxiety & self-esteem issues. This is in no small part thanks to uwu quirky twitter users marketing it as a trendy fashion statement & catch-all solution to mental health issues. A few outlier trans people (The kind who tells children that they're "eggs") borders on actual grooming/manipulation. Teenagers are particularly susceptible to misdiagnosing the anxiety about their self-image (which nearly every teen has) as "gender dysphoria", since they don't really know or fully understand their feelings. Of course it doesn't fucking work, the core issues causing depression remains unaddressed, which is why many trans people either detransition after a few years (I know 3 people IRL who de-transitioned) or attempt to kill themselves. It's a band-aid slapped on a bullethole, people are now catching on but at the height of the troons I think maybe... 5% of people who called themselves trans actually had dysphoria? A similar thing is happening with recently-converted zoomers larping as christians, they see it more as a fitness routine/shortcut to happiness then a devotion of one's soul to helping the poor and needy, and a lot of that is caused by roman statue pfps amd general right-wing grifters preying on young miserable men who understandably feel rejected by society