I think it's more mental than physical, but not pet pressure persay.
An autistic person doesn't feel normal. They look at other kids theory age and they don't fit in, the autistic kid doesn't play like the other boys and girls play.
This starts a brain loop that something is wrong with them, eventually leading then to self internalize and believe it must be related to gender, and if they were just the opposite gender, they would then fit in with all the other kids.
Maybe a girl is babied all the time, and she sees how the boys are independent and thanks if she was just a boy maybe her parents wanted baby her all the time.
Maybe a boy never gets any physical attention and sees how the girls always get hugs and thinks maybe if I was just a girl people would actually care about me and love me.
In essence I think it's a societal problem as to why autism can be linked to higher gender dysphoria, maybe hormones help push that over the edge but I doubt that they are the primary cause
There are absolutely older people with autism that when they were growing up the internet did not exist and gender dysphoria was not even a word in the vocabulary and yet they still had gender dysphoria.
This is why I think it's not just hormones but also a feeling of not being normal in the brain and then trying to adapt to see how to feel normal.
I think it's more mental than physical, but not pet pressure persay.
An autistic person doesn't feel normal. They look at other kids theory age and they don't fit in, the autistic kid doesn't play like the other boys and girls play.
This starts a brain loop that something is wrong with them, eventually leading then to self internalize and believe it must be related to gender, and if they were just the opposite gender, they would then fit in with all the other kids.
Maybe a girl is babied all the time, and she sees how the boys are independent and thanks if she was just a boy maybe her parents wanted baby her all the time.
Maybe a boy never gets any physical attention and sees how the girls always get hugs and thinks maybe if I was just a girl people would actually care about me and love me.
In essence I think it's a societal problem as to why autism can be linked to higher gender dysphoria, maybe hormones help push that over the edge but I doubt that they are the primary cause
There are absolutely older people with autism that when they were growing up the internet did not exist and gender dysphoria was not even a word in the vocabulary and yet they still had gender dysphoria.
This is why I think it's not just hormones but also a feeling of not being normal in the brain and then trying to adapt to see how to feel normal.