@mercedesallen Although I really hate to agree with any of this nonsense, I do sometimes wonder whether trans people become trans because of internalized homophobia - or more likely, ingrained stereotypes about what men should/shouldn't feel or women should/shoudn't feel. I am gay myself but never had any regret or internalized stress over it. Yet I've heard from trans people that they were "uncomfortable" as males because of their attraction to other males (and vice versa); as if a "real" man cannot justifiably have sexual feelings for another man, or a woman have such feelings for another woman.
I'm not saying I agree that is the case, only that's what appears to often be the case from their own mouths. I certainly hope it IS NOT a reason that trans people become trans, because of course it's ridiculous and wrong to think that men should or shouldn't have sexual thoughts about other men, or women about women. To me, in fact, those sorts of sexual feelings are even more normal than socially acceptable heteronormative feelings which have to be inculcated and encouraged.