Okay. First off, they didn’t express explicit sexual interest. If they had, they would’ve tried to hook up at the bar. They merely looked at you and you assigned meaning to it that may or may not have actually existed.

This seems to be a huge issue. it's a lack of social intelligence and tied strongly to autism which we know is prevalent in trans individuals. I have a bit of a problem with this myself but I recognize it as a weakness and if i misinterpret signals and someone rejects me I end up feeling the need to apologize for misinterpreting. Due to this I also miss tons of signals the other way because i am afraid of making a friendship uncomfortable by reading too much into their signals. Later on I figure out that it was a signal after the ship has sailed.

The ongoing theme with these people is that they interpret everything as sexual and specifically about them in a sexual way. It's extreme narcissism combined with zero social intelligence.