> A transgender person is someone who is absolutely miserable when they are not permitted to express the gender they feel. Is that true of everyone who identif

> A transgender person is someone who is absolutely miserable when they are not permitted to express the gender they feel. Is that true of everyone who identifies as trans, though? I get the impression there is a subset of trans folks for whom this is the case, and many others (perhaps a majority) who simply prefer to use different pronouns than the ones they started with. I would love to have data that establishes whether that impression is correct or incorrect. There appears to be a puzzling conflation between folks who enjoy or prefer alternative gender expressions and folks whose survival depends on it, and it would be a great relief to know what's really going on.