Gender identity and sexual preference are probably two separate, but inter-related intrapsychic dynamics. Jung and Freud both seemed to agree that the human psyche is basically androgenous... embodying both "male" and "female" qualities. Some of that gets expressed, some repressed, depending on one's culture and upbringing. Online, in anonymous environments, we may be seeing a disinhibition of what has been repressed. It could be a simple acting out of unconscious fantasies and wishes that goes nowhere, or it could be a therapeutic striving for a higher level of integration and unity.
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