>>90990103It's not the programming, it's autism and transexuality. The connection is partly because autism as a condition has large impacts on a person's sense of self or feeling of self, and how they relate to the people around them and more importantly how they relate or don't relate to the unwritten social standards of their environment.
When you talk to enough different autistic people, you will often hear a thread of experiences where they encounter certain social rules (such as what is considered feminine and masculine) that feel completely illogical to them, or without basis, end result being they feel a lot of difficulty in understanding why people think certain ways or why they don't do certain things when there's no technical rule against it.
If you talk to autistic women a lot of them will show interests or characteristics that are stereotypically masculine. A lot of them will also have as much trouble relating to neurotypical women as autistic men. Autistic men get more of a pass with neurotypical men than ND women do with NT women because of the differences in social standards within the same sex.
Autism seems to come with a certain quality that seems to blur the gender lines within many individual's personalities.
