There’s no way a mentally well person would want to remove their breasts. Absolutely none. The mere act of wanting them gone is a mental illness in itself. But it’s complicated. None of these MH issues are easy to treat. Lots simply feel ill at ease in their bodies and succumb to the social contagion of transition as magic solution to all their problems. Not to mention the positive attention they get for coming out as trans, especially from their peers and online.
Others will have a history of sexual abuse leading them to hate their bodies. It’s tragic however you look at it. The same reasons that drive girls to develop anorexia are drawing girls down the path to transitioning now. I’d love to know if the numbers of girls presenting at ED clinics has gone down over the last five or so years, because we all know the numbers of girls being referred to gender clinics are massively up.
) who is relatively well-known within the scene and he has noticed a LOT of younger teenagers latching on to drag queens/drag shows, announcing that they're non-binary/trans and the like, and that's only within the last few years. It's a certain type of teenager too, they tend to be quite isolated and spend pretty much all their time on the internet. Some of it is harmless and just teenagers being teenagers, and they'll probably grow out of it, but still feels a bit uncomfortable.
