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I absolutely think a lot (most? nearly all?) trans people are trans because of default brain wiring or something, but I wonder what percentage are MtF cause they felt like they could never be a successful man, and because there's a clear community/path to acceptance for trans ppl

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Where I’m from, trans people are mocked, ridiculed and abused to such a degree that volunteering for that seems unhinged. If you’re an unsuccessful man in search of community it’s easier to be an incel

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Must depend on your community. Where I'm from if you're trans you'll be all but worshiped, publicly at least.

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Very liberal communities in very liberal cities, definitely.

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I've been in dance communities, so the places I'm thinking of comes from there - dance community in San Francisco and Boston are extremely, extremely pro-trans.

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No, but it doesn't have to be all-encompassing to be significant. Church, for example, plays a huge and defining part in people's lives, without it also being the place where people shop, and you see lots of the radical religious motivated by simply that.

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Trans people have a lower rate of victims of homicide than cis people, to be clear. But besides that yea I agree with you, I think this motivation doesn't hold for the majority of trans people. I was just wondering about the minority of cases.

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Well I was asking because I was reading accounts online of ex-trans people saying this is exactly why they transitioned, so I think it does make sense for at least some people, even if there's not that many.

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