Chris is fucked in the head. He's also very strange. But it's pretty shallow and not very scientific to disregard Chris' potential to be transgender based on those things.
Mental illness causes people to do strange things. And there's no rule that says one person can't have multiple mental illnesses, or have one mental illness obscure another mental illness. In fact, it's usually the opposite, people frequently have several comorbid mental illnesses fucking their lives up.
So in this case: Chris might be trans and autistic and crazy. To a layman, the most obvious issues are that he's fucking bonkers, but that doesn't mean the transgenderism isn't real. It's not even particularly "likely" that one interpretation is more correct than the other, because the bulk of the evidence is out of our hands.
Yet you yourself call Chris "him" and "he".
M8, he's obviously mentally ill. I'm not saying he's not transgender because he's mentally ill. I'm not saying someone can only have one mental illness, that's elementary-school level stupid.
My comment was overly simplifying the reasons I personally don't believe Chris is trans and wouldn't call him "she". (except to Chris's face directly if we ran into each other or something - and that's because I wouldn't want to risk the wrath of the all-powerful half-Sonichu Chris).
His misogyny and stereotypical view of what it means to be female is a huge deterrent for me. He thinks that women get to be shoppin', sit back and let the men do the work, have lots of friends simply because they are female, and avoid all confrontation because it's mean to pick fights with girls. Not to mention be inappropriately friendly with other women without respecting their boundaries, because they're just friends dear, that's what friends do darling! Tee-hee!
Who wouldn't want to be female if that's all it was?
Since Chris was a child, he's always talked about how his autism doctors always pointed out how he's much more likely to befriend women than men. He's more compatible with them. And he always rambled on about how guys should play with girl toys to learn about the opposite sex.
There are plenty of women who make friends more easily with men than with other women. That doesn't make them trans. If a sister plays with her brother's Matchbox cars and he plays with her Barbies, that doesn't make them trans. Girls in school were simply more likely to be sympathetic for the poor little sped kid, and most of Chris's wistful memories of the gal-pals were related to how he wanted to date them or how they were nicer and gentler to him compared to "brute males".
I know you know Chris personally and often try to portray him here in the most positive light possible, and I respect you for not Idea Guy-ing and abusing your friendship with Chris, but the dude is not a lady. Dun, Dun.