it's interesting how people choose to frame the troon problem.
I think it's funny that the corpulent soyboys and autistic dateless wonders who make up the majority of STEM dudes (particularly in the engineering and Technology portions of that acronym) are some how chad alpha competitors to the point that women are turned off from the profession. Have you met engineers in real life? They certainly aren't what I would consider ambitious, overall. Computing is actually interesting, because right after the war the field was much more equal, since a lot of computer programming was considered "soft work" akin to clerical work that women were suited for, it's only in the 70's as computing starts becoming important to commercial operations that you start seeing a noticeable trend of more men going in, and that exacerbated as the internet and the dotcom boom make the field lucrative. Like the idea of cooking being women's work, but most chefs being male, the divide mostly has to do with the amount of money the industry brings in. When there's a lot of money to be made, men try to keep women out. It's not that the fields themselves require masculine competition, it's that competitive and hostile males force out women as a way of securing their own position (even if they themselves are mediocre). One thing I do think men are better at, through socialization or instinct, is selling themselves and playing up their accomplishments. Women in my experience tend to do the opposite, they minimize and try to act as part of the team and not stand out. This is another way MTF troons stand way out to me in terms of their behavior. The proportion of women in computer science is actually on a downward trend since the 1980s, and the total number of women receiving comp-sci degrees peaked in 2003. So it seems weird, given the number of tranny programmers, to attribute
troon growth to a trend that is actually going in the inverse direction as troonism ramped up.
I would posit that the actual major source of increase for both MTF and FTM troons is just social media. There are now networks for these people to actively go out and recruit new followers to their paraphilias, in much the same way you see with furries, bestiality fetishists, or diaper fetishists.
