In cases like these, a trans man or a non-binary person may first try to embrace a butch female identity as part of a negotiation with their own fears of rejection, before ultimately realizing that they cannot co-exist with their unresolved dysphoria. But while there may exist a small number of women who experience deep confusion about their gender and are unsure for years about where they sit on the gender spectrum, there is no credible evidence that significant numbers of people initially identifying as lesbians are consciously abandoning a female identity to transition en masse, let alone
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