As near as I can determine, someone who is, say biologically male but attracted to men believes that if he transitions to look like a woman then he’ll be attractive to males. The problem is a man, attracted to a woman, is usually interested in producing children. Why would a hetero man be attracted to a pretend woman when the real thing is easily available and meets all of his requirements? The guy who has invested his time and money into becoming the image of something he isn’t then has a fifty percent chance of suicide. I think there is a sudden realization that he has made a HUGE mistake that can’t be undone. The suicide who wants to take others with him is a narcissist.
Incidentally, I’ve read about several instances when a trans woman has seduced a hetero man and been killed for (its) effort. I’m sure that reaction is the exception rather than the rule, but at the very least the seduction is a betrayal. The typical man would simply walk away. I can’t remember the movie where one pretend woman character seduced a man. The man is heard to be vomiting and the pretend woman cries, “I didn’t think it would make any difference!”
The storyline given out by trans people is that they really are what they pretend to be and anyone who doesn’t accept them as such is transphobic.
The movie you are referring to is “The Crying Game”-as European “art” flicks go, it was actually pretty good-the soldier-a Brit, I think-got used to and ended up accepting the pretend woman as his partner-which was weird-but art flicks usually don’t make a lot of sense-they are just strange...