I think that’s also why so many pooners and troons end up in education. Being the only adult in the classroom gives them a false sense of both power and popularity, neither of which they likely had as students themselves since they were all probably too gross, creepy, perverted, autistic, or all of the above during their own schooling to even have friends, let alone be popular.
Personally, it clears up a lot to think of 'trans' as something people
do rather than something people
are. As a verb, because verbs are motivated rather than innate qualities. Why do people trans? Which people trans? And a huge part of it is that it's a way of exerting control, and so it draws in people who crave more control, over themselves and over others, to a disordered degree, while actively gatekeeping against people who have respect for other people's rights, beliefs, feelings, perceptions, boundaries, autonomy, etc. Because on a fundamental level, trans is about demanding people 'see you' the way you demand to be seen instead of how they actually perceive you.
It's been artificially normalized by increasingly unhinged activism in the name of 'intersectional' blah blah blah, but think about how fundamentally warped that is. Yes, it's normal to care at least a bit about how you appear to others and try to project the image that you want to embody, but in a normal person that comes with some acceptance that ultimately other people will judge you based on how they perceive you and the most you can do is try to influence that perception. They get to make up their own minds about you. Trans says no, they don't, they
have to see me the way I want to be seen, no matter what reality be damned. 'I identify as five lights, so say it!"
So it draws in the people who are attracted to that instead of repulsed by it, who also express their control issues in other fucked up ways. Self-harmers (cutting, anorexia, extreme promiscuity...). Career cancellation-mobbers. Mass shooters. Serial killers. Rapists. Domestic abusers. Pedophiles. Reddit moderators (but I repeat myself). And yes, becoming educators, where they're given a captive audience of children they can reward or punish based on how compliant they are with the teacher's agenda. They seek out positions of power they can abuse.