I am a straight woman and when I was a teen I was very confused about myself, I used to self harm and I was sexually harrassed which made me hate myself a lot.

Sometimes I would think about becoming a man because I thought it would make things easier, I also had a FtM friend and if I'm not mistaken there is a study showing that girls with trans friends often start idetifying as trans too.

As I grew up I stopped hating myself and being disgusted with my body, so to me its not only a trend and a fetish but also a major problem where they use and groom vulnerable kids to further their own movement

Edit: I also think they conveluted the meaning of "gender dysphoria" bc to me it seems like a rebranded body dismorphia, which is something I still suffer with but as I said nowadays I don't feel disgusted with my body anymore so it is mild now.

But when I would look up online as to why I hated my body so much, why I cried when I saw myself in the mirror all it would take me was to gender dysphoria.

Idk why I didn't get conviced I was trans, I think it was because I knew I didn't hate being female rather I hated what people did to me because I was female (sexual harrassment, older men chasing me on the street, etc...)