I know people will hate me for this — join the fucking club — but I think most (but not all) desire to transition to another gender is really a futile wish to accrue the benefits of both preponderant genders while attempting to negate the disadvantages.

Given that, I think most trans people would not exist in a society that did not enforce gender roles and stereotypes so strictly.

In other words, this emerges from cultural and personal trauma. None of this should be controversial, but anything with a hint of truth these days is.