(This is a guy who thinks that everyone who wishes they were the opposite gender or has fantasies of being the opposite gender secretly have a fetish he’s came up with in his head.)

Quite unexpectedly nuanced, but still uninformed. From the title of the article, what should be understood is that this "sissy" fetish (and likely all meaningful non-dragqueen crossdressing) is actually a masochistic emasculation fetish. That it is possibly the most common masochistic fetish in males. That for the small proportion who develop profound emotional attachments related to their fetishism (especially if it is related to self identity), then these appear to make up the bulk of M2F transgender population.

It also goes without say, that while most masochistic emasculation fetishists are otherwise pretty regular guys, there is the possibility for some that substantial femininity/homosexual feelings figured in the initial emasculation anxieties/trauma which result in the fetish in the first place.