People even before they come out as transgender or realize what they are tend to cluster together due to personality similarities. So you have friend groups whe

People even before they come out as transgender or realize what they are tend to cluster together due to personality similarities. So you have friend groups where the transgender quotient is really high, whether they know it yet or not. Once one of the eggs cracks in a friend group, it definitely might cause an avalanche, but it doesn't mean that it's peer pressure, it's just that nobody wants to be the first or realizes yet that this is an option. As for self destructiveness and self mutilation... is something that people should decide for themselves what medical changes of their bodies they consider mutilation vs which ones they consider improvements. Some people get tattoos and they really like them. That is fine. I would consider one on mine a mutilation of my beautiful body. So the way you put it is quite insulting. Many transgender people wake up every day as if their bodies have been mutilated the day before: that's what they want to correct. It's a phenomenon I have no relationship with other than hearing it from other people, but I've seen it so many times.