So I have the perspective of someone who had ideation of being trans and pursuing transition (although ultimately I didn't) because I was so exceptionally masculine for a woman.

So there are trans people, and there are some people who only think they are trans. Hence, places like this, for those that are detrans or desisted.

What's the proportion? Hey, well that's highly debatable. I don't think that's even possible to figure out.

So without saying that I think that people who think their gender doesn't match their sex are all deluded...because I absolutely don't...maybe it's only a tiny percentage...

I wonder just how many people are deeply trapped in a coping mechanism. It makes a lot of sense that people that may be physically masculine or feminine, also may be mentally masculine or feminine to the point that they are trans.

But I feel very invisible because my outward masculinity did not make me male or nonbinary. It was completely incidental. I'm just a woman, coping with an appearance I would rather not have. I can only change my lack of femininity so much. But surgery and hormones could make me look like a man with some sort of unusual looking penis. And even if I were a beautiful woman, men and women get different treatment in society...there would still be an appeal of being able to experience living as a male.