Can confirm.

Even if one has a relatively idyllic childhood (i.e. a happy, loving home with virtuous parents), puberty and just before is where the misery hits the social fan.

One absolutely does not fit in with the other minds, and is mentally capable enough to perceive the socially-isolating mismatch. Generally, being disconnected from one's body is a lifelong struggle.

Then along comes a wicked liar and says "I have an expensive medical procedure which will fix your problem". It'll make us a mint. Another set of wicked liars realizes that if you can create sexual freaks who are forced to live as permanent edge cases, their own perversions will become background noise.

I'd be dead now if either of those kinds of people had gotten their hands on me.

One thing coming to light from the trans movement, is how so many with non-standard sexualities are bog-standard perverts. Gay sex is not their jam because they got a brain-and-endocrine misdirection that prevents forming a sexual pair-bond with member of their own species. Sad, but I now suspect as microcopic in number as true body dysphoric (the ones who need to self-blind, amputate etc.) or hermaphrodites.

Guys get stuck, gals get broken, and the only way they can get off is a piece of strange. Making this an identity is tragic.

To get back to the theme of the post, the incentive for the predators is camouflage. All the apex predators in nature make use of it. Why should humans be any different.