Everyone knows that there's a correlation between autism and trooning out. But I think there are some direct links.
I've noticed that autistic people do not have a gaydar, nor do they perceive certain actions as 'zesty' or effeminate, such as shaving one's legs or painting one's nails as a guy. Now, obviously, in and of themselves, those acts are not effeminate, we perceive them as effeminate due to their association with outward femininity (the appearance that women put on themselves). But autists simply see those acts at face value, they do not have a feeling telling them that they're gay. (Also, we call those acts gay because of the association of effeminate men with pederasty).
And I think that they see those acts at face value because they do not have a sense of masculinity (or femininity). This is why they troon out, they come to hate their own bodies and sex so easily because they do not even understand what it means to be a man. They then turn their bodies into an idol of feminity (and I really mean idol, as in taking something abstract and making a physical representation out of it), generally because of autogynephilia.
Now, I wouldn't define masculinity or femininity as some specific set of traits. I would not say that it being protective and courageous are masculine traits, and neither would I say that being caring and nurturing are feminine traits. Sure, men are generally more apt for being protective and corageous, and women are generally more apt at being caring and nurturing, but those 2 facts are irrelevant. I really wouldn't know how to define those, though. I think they're innate to neurotypical people.
It's 4am right now and this post is really just more of a collection of thoughts than one proper idea or system of ideas. I was also gonna bring up military ads and how they invoke a very specific feeling which I would say procedes from a man's masculinity, even if one opposes serving. I hope at least some of what I said made sense THOUGH