Wen Jung-kuang, a psychiatrist at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, explains that because males get preferential treatment in Taiwanese society, females are more inclined to identify themselves as being male.
對此現象，高雄榮總精神科醫生文榮光的解釋是，因為台灣仍處於重男輕女的觀念之中，導致女性偏向於認同男性角色。