Transgenderism has a strong correlation with autism and being terminally online. There is an incentive to stay online once they go trans so they can avoid incidents like the "IT'S MA'AM!" guy, where their fantasy gets ruined by some normie.

Perhaps most importantly, they are some of the most reliable allies of the liberal project. Their perverse fantasy is joined at the hip to the liberal project, and they usually have deeply internalized an intense, late-stage liberalism.