While there are a lot of stereotypes about the difference between male and female friendships, people are along a sliding scale of emotional neediness friendships. Generally speaking, women’s friendships include emotional support and willingness to confide personal issues while men’s friendships are usually activity-based (e.g., my golfing buddy, my hunting buddy, my drinking buddy, my professional colleague). I saw a meme yesterday which illustrated this divide: a woman asks another woman whether she is getting fat. Her friends says “of course not, you’ve never been more beautiful.” then it shows a man asking the same question of his friend and his friend replies “I know five fat people and you are four of them.”
I happen to be a woman who shares little emotionally and I would never consider calling up a friend and venting to her. I might inquire as to how said friend is doing but honestly I am not that interested in the gruesome details. This drove my mother and sister nuts but I am who I am.
It seems to me, an amateur psychologist, that “transpeople” are probably high in emotional neediness in the first place so this social reality hits them hard. As for whether her role as a life coach remains viable, I wouldn’t be surprised if she carries on. A whole lot of “life coaches” seem pretty messed up with or without being “trans”.
Trans people by their very nature are seeking affirmation about their choice. And when they can’t get it, they go to pieces.