HRT is the new crack.
The way crack has damaged black communities is now happening with HRT in cyberspace.

"If you can't get a girlfriend, become a girlfriend" was a tragically prophetic meme within the anime community a few years ago, primarily around the COVID era.

If you feel completely lacking in attention and affection, it's a quick way to get it. Then they latch onto it because they know it works to some degree, similar to young women with daddy/abandonment issues acting flirty or sexual for attention to fill that emotional void.

For many young men that become this way, it starts as just a desire to feel seen and accepted in whatever way they can that they are not getting in real life for whatever reason. And there are plenty of men on discord that will shower them in praise if they put on women's stockings.

And occasionally autogynephilia, but we're not supposed to say that part out loud.

OP, this was a cliche joke 5 years ago
let's be real, nobody here wants a real sociology of online transgenderism, they just want to whine about le troons.