The fact that they are all seemingly well below the average height of a man (and this causes them all considerable 'dysphoria') should be some sort of indication that biology and nature itself are trying to tell them something- but of course, the Reddit hugbox is here to save the day by telling them that "they all know plenty of men who are below 5ft tall".
In all of my over 3 decades of being alive, I can say with complete certainty that I have never once encountered a man who was below 5'3" tall who wasn't a dwarf or had some other variety of birth defect. These pooners are just brazenly lying to themselves and each other.
Because someone asks this every time this happens, I'm going to preemtively answer the question on some of your minds
: why do these short women troon if they will be doomed manlets or shorter than manlets? Manlet life is hell and they can't pass, it doesn't make sense...
Short Answer: they're
mentally ill and
massively insecure.
There's a few different cases here since females have different goals than trans males. The easiest to get out of the way is the yaoi fan troons because it is her fetish, logic does not comply. See: autogynophiles.
The saddest and the most understandable will always be the type who's trying to get away from any sort of sexual assault anxiety. Some have reasons to fear it, some have sadly had it happen already, and some aren't in danger but they have a hard hitting phobia of it. These types transition to erase the trace of woman in them, to run to safety and to camouflage themselves into the "predator (male)" catagory or into the background as a genderblob. These women usually wish they were taller and can go further with it since the fear of being unsafe is earth shattering to them. They can go super delusional to calm themselves down and not remind themselves that they will always be the unsafe weak prey catagory of woman (in their mind). They're tragic and hard to work with since it's hard to confront terror like that, but some get out of it. Until then, pretend you are a man to calm down and have control.
There are also the massively insecure ones, but ego wise. These women have a bruised ego at men being better than them at something. Sometimes it is something sad like going from the fastest runner in the class to only the fastest
girl in the class, other times it is that her parents loved her brother(s) more. They think the feminine is weak and usually have a good dose of misogyny hidden to them in their brain. This is like a short woman Napoleon complex, where she tries to transition to someone great and respected instead of a pushed aside girl. Sadly, it is like all delusions where it is fed by the mind and not reality, so it always ends painfully.
If you don't understand still, realize that you likely don't have the same type of disassociative thinking and body disconnect they have that allows them to do such. The brain isn't working properly, it is easier and more comfortable to be delusional about being a short king than an icky weak vunerable woman. The alternative to their delusion is much, much worse in THEIR minds, not to outsiders, and sadly, they can only live in their minds and can only choose to train themselves out of it. But many don't in the trans cult.
Edit:
Sexual assault anxiety: you must believe you are a man or else your body is convinced you are in fight or flight mode and you act like you're being hunted by tigers everywhere. Their panic levels are elevated and always on, this is one of the maladaptive ways they found to turn the panic levels down... for a bit until the illusion breaks again.
Ego: you must believe you are a man or else your incredible self loathing hits you like a ton of bricks. Your height can't prove you wrong or you have to admit you aren't as good as a man and have to go back to being a subserviant girl or a failure of a woman.
Fetish: you must not care because you are jerking off, do NOT ruin my high.
There's likely a few reasons I'm forgetting (for example, autistic obliviousness and thought processes or true stupidity) but that is why so many lil' doods troon out: if you can't be tall, be a man because they're still respected/feared more than you are now. Again, trauma, personal self loathing, and classic self misogyny can warp the brain hard.