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Out of all the "gender reassignment" surgeries, what percentage of them are women who want to be men?

About 1 in 4.

Most guys born with feminine bodies can live reasonable lives pretending to be butch lesbians. The problem they have is that, while the hormones work brilliantly, the surgery isn't ready for prime-time yet. $100,000 and a success rate of 30% discourages most of them.

Maybe I should say what we know transsexuality is now - it's a form of Intersex. That is, someone who's born with a body neither wholly male nor wholly female. Many Intersex conditions are obvious from external appearance. Others, you need ultrasounds and X-rays. Others, gene tests.

Autopsies and MRI scans have shown that every transsexual ever examined has had cross-gendered neurology in particular areas of the brain - and often elsewhere too.

As one Professor of Urology stated recently to the APA:

We spoke for 2 1/2 hours on why cross gender identity was a normal inherited variation of humans. We showed how Transgender Brains think, smell, and hear like the opposite sex.

The effect isn't subtle. These really are men born with mostly female bodies, or women born with mostly male ones. I say "mostly", because quite often it's not just the brain that's cross-gendered, there's other , more obvious Intersex conditions too. Most of the knowledge in this area has come from biologists, neurologists, geneticists, urologists, endocrinologists and so on, as many of the psychs are still talking about "spirit release therapy", and the like.

This has not gone down well with many Leftists either, as it's been an article of faith to them that Gender is nothing but a Social Construct.

Parenthetically.... what's really interesting from sociological, psychological and even theological viewpoints are the rare Intersex conditions such as 5ARD or 17BHDD that cause a "natural sex change", usually from female at birth to male later. There's at least 3,000 men in the USA who were born looking like little girls, were brought up that way, but who had an unexpected male puberty. And maybe another 1,000 women who would have had one, except for emergency medical intervention. Not everyone with these conditions is neurologically male.