Understanding transgenderism.

[The Grand Nudger]

Under your theory, there seems no good reason for transgenderism at all aside from rebellious personalities, which is an absurd explanation.  

Right, if gender is just a cultural norm, or construct, then transgender individuals are just another counterculture group. No different than listening to rock music a few decades ago. It makes talk of dysphoria incoherent. And it makes the point of transitioning unintelligeble.

It makes the observation of dysphoria a seperate issue.  There are trans people who do not suffer from pronounced dyspmorphia, and ofc their body maps are as accurate as anyone els'es can be expected to be. If you were born the wrong gender, that's one thing. If you were born the wrong sex - another. The one won't solve the other - not for cis or trans people.

Psychologists have not latched on to such single rigid explanations since the middle of the foregone century. Every behavior is understood to be the result of multivariate interactions. As an example, obesity is highly heritable, somewhere near 70%. But no matter how heritable it is, you will never become obese in a famine. You will also not become obese depending on the diet available to your location.

The presence of regional variation does not imply the absence of heritability or biological contributions. Environments, including cultural ones, will always magnify biological differences, that's Evolution 101.

Is that the explanation for the large collection of trans teens in west virginia, if you had to guess? Maybe there's something in the water.

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Some biologists, such as Professor Jerry Coyne, are hard determinists, and reject libertarian free will, and by that paradigm, our gender and where we choose to live are products of external and internal events beyond our control

Our societies gender assertions are beyond our control, and our body map is impossible to ignore.  Even if we had something like a libertarian free will, and it was at play here - I doubt that it would be super effective.  Doesn't keep us from stuffing our face with chips, either.

I also think that the desire to outwardly present to the word as we inwardly perceive ourselves to be is universal.