In the human shields thread, someone linked to a Kathleen Stock Twitter thread. Further down the thread was a link to an article quoting Shon Faye: "Fundamentally what someone is saying when they misgender you is that everything you've worked so hard to assert about yourself against all odds people lose families over this, people risk violence is, 'I have the power always to take that away and to say that you are not what you say you are,' and that there is some essence that you can never run away from...it's inherently a very psychologically dominant act."
This is evidence from a transwoman's mouth, that transwomen are indeed, as others have suggested, heavily if not completely dependent on others lying for their sense of self-worth.
I would counter Faye by saying that forcing everyone around you to lie about your biology by missexing you is a very psychologically dominant act.