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I think this is mostly explicable by the extremely strong link between being trans and being autistic https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/
Autistic people are disproportionately likely to become coders and disproportionately likely to become trans.
Based on self-reported data, that is. I don't think your average MtF has anything even remotedly comparable to social dysfunction of an autistic person, as seen by other observer.
Not just self-reported data. This study found that children with a formal diagnosis of autism were 7.59 times more likely to express gender variance.
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I see this in one music related hobby that leans heavily towards people with interest in the details of physical instruments. Trans women outnumber cis women by a large margin in all english speaking forums related to it, to the extent that assuming every female coded name is trans is right much more often than not. Based on their comment history and profiles, more or less all of those trans women are on the spectrum (and much further than most men in the forums).
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