[Speculation] Are the Morbildy Obese More Likely to be Transgendered? [Posted from my phone, I'll correct strangeness later.] I am, of course, excluding Tumblrette (teehee) bandwagon hoppers, who now often describe themselves as 'Trans' and wear the Tumblr starter kit. These people are 'trans' only in name, and will cease to be so in 2-5 years. So, its pretty common knowledge that being fat fucks you up in a thousand ways, broadly categorized as physical, social, and emotional. I think that these types of damage lead to gender dysphoria in fatties, and would like to lay out my thoughts for critique so I might hone them into a galvanized spear to be thrust into the bloated rolls of fatlogic that comprise the assorted 'acceptance' movements.  Fat people hate themselves so much that they divorce themselves from their own bodies in an attempt to distance their actions from their results. All the iterations of "Muh cundishuns" and "Muh Guhneticks by Coca-Cola" are all attempts to outsource blame, but also to isolate their body's activities from their control. They view their body as a separate entity from their mind, which is why they frame their arguments dimorphically. (It's what's 'inside' that counts.) This separation of the will and the body is necessary for them to believe all the fatlogic, which almost always uses the dialogue of hate and betrayal. This breeds the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with the body they have, as even people who 'love being fat' are openly miserable, and consumed by rationsl jealousy.  Once one bears in mind the other concerns, its easy to see how this could result in someone deciding their body is 'wrong,' and 'wrong' enough to declare their mentality the polar opposite of their body, due to the human tend toward 'if-not, then not-not' falacies. Being fat is viewed as feminine. This is a pretty omnipresent trope across most human cultures, but it's one that persists into the modern era. There are no 'plus-sized' male 'supermodels' nor are they used nearly as heavily in marketing of obesewear as women are. The proportion of men who are above twice a normal BMI is staggeringly lower than women who are above said demark (75% F/ 25% M, a statistical variation of 200%) I propose that this is largely because of two core reasons: Men have traditionally been breadwinners and are seen only as masculine if they are capable of bringing in enough to survive off of, and in almost all cases this requires a minimum level of physical activity (getting to your car to go to work, for example.) Women, by contrast, have traditionally been homemakers, who are expected to be more-or-less sedentary (Yes, raising kids is hard, but it doesn't necessarily mean you have to leave the house.) and were often expected to be pregnant, a condition that bloats you, and dramatically limits your ability to move about. This results in a paradigm that many have experienced, where fat men are required to have at least enough physical ability to get into their car and drive to work every morning, whereas fat women can wheezily mosey the 30 feet to the couch/fridge, and plop down like so many bags of concrete and lard.  Nowadays, it's entirely possible (and easy) for someone to become so fat that they cannot maintain that minimum level of physical fitness required to go out and do things. As a result, they stay at home (which we've already established as 'socially femenine') and do nothing except get progressively fatter. Continuing to become fatter and fatter until they hit a point where they are so fat, it's impossible to tell what gender they are. Meanwhile, socially accepted media portrayals of gender rolls go along to picture men as largely bread-winners, and when there's a stay-at-home role, it's usually fulfilled by a woman. So, these shut-ins begin to progressively see themselves, or characters who they think perform similar actions to themselves, as 'femenine.' It's also socially acceptable for women to have more fat on them, because women require more fat than men to be healthy (5-8% more by mass, in fact.) From here it's no large logical leap to see that someone who thinks their body is 'wrong' and 'out to get them' and has a 'femenine' social role might start to think that they might have a body that's 'not right for their gender.' Being fat wrecks your body, in every way imaginable, but the way that's most relevant to this discussion is the endocrine system. It's been proven that being overweight screws with your sex-hormone production. This results on men who became fat at an early age having effete voices, as they have always received extra estrogen from their adipose tissue. This also results in fat men growing breasts, and even having a magnified monthly hormonal cycle that mimics the mood cycles of menstruation.  I'm not a doctor, so some input here would be very appreciated, but I don't think that men getting a bunch of lady hormones, developing lady bodily features, and having an effeminate voice is really going to help them in their losing battle against both their internal hate structure for their own body, as well as society's consistent message that they are not wholly male. Thanks in advance :D