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Great answers.
Teresa, I see your point, but the fact is women experience dysphoria at the same rate as men, but it is often over different things. If a woman experiences gender dysphoria related to gender expression she is pretty free to present in a more masculine way without consequences. That said, "transexual" females are less common than males, but that is a special class that most trans people never reach. It doesn't apply to the masses.
Gender involves far more than your gender expression. On the whole women experience far more gender related dysphoria because they are treated as inferior by many males, earn less than males in the same job, are sometimes fearful of being assaulted, and so many more. Trans-like behaviors and mental states are often thought to be less in women than men. That is not true when one considers gender as a large set of behaviors that we use in social situations. What women can do is internalize it more effectively so it is not quite so apparent. Many women feel terrible about being paid less than men and being viewed as inferior but they tend to accept that because, in the gender binary concept, they are stereotyped as being submissive. Fortunately, that is changing as women find they can effectively use the more assertive and even aggressive methods stereotypically attributed to men. I may be male, but I am very much a feminist when it comes to gender rights and overall equality.
Unfortunately, it is the gender binary concept that has generated this gender inequality and it has been there for so long that it is built into our social thinking. If one looks at the history of the gender binary concept one can easily see that this concept of gender was created by males with little or no input from females and so its assumptions are inherently biased to favor males. Now we are finding those assumptions were, in many ways, "fake news" created by cherry picking the differences between males and females and ignoring the vast amount of similarities between the two genders. More modern thinking in the scientific world concludes that males and females are far more alike when it comes to gender behavior than they are different. But it will take a long time for this to filter down to the masses because the traditional view in Western cultures and civilizations has been ground into the fabric of social traditions over the last 8,000 to 10,000 years when agriculture replaced hunter-gatherer traditions where sex and gender was viewed as being far more equal than it is today.
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