The Reimer case is a perfect example of what happens when you take a brain of one sex and forcibly put it in the body of the other sex. Reimer knew that he was a boy, that something was wrong, from an extremely early age. This is pretty much what transsexualism is. And because I didn’t get dysphoria as a child I’m 100% not a transsexual. The problem is figuring out how I was convinced that I was trans…

1. ROGD: I wanted to be part of a special in-group that requires a certain medical condifion to have. Online spaces are the reason I think I’m trans.
2. Munchausen’s: maybe I’m obsessed with being special and having medical conditions and so I self diagnosed myself with transsexualism. In Munchausen’s, patients are fully convinced they have the symptoms.
3. Meaninglessness / “Magic cure”: It’s possible that I’m using transsexualism as a way to explain away why I’m such a failure in life and as a way to give me purpose. My brain was simply looking for a “magic cure” to solve all my problems
4. Misattributed autoeroticism: It’s possible this is all stemming from a female embodiment fetish and I’m relabeling the symptoms as transsexualism out of shame.

Let me know if you have any other ideas.