Short answer: The drugs involved in HRT (as well as hormone level changes themselves) can cause sodium cravings, and pickles are salty. Somewhere along the line it became a meme.
Long answer: Pickles and Transfems: Hormonal and Cultural Food Craving in Gender Transition
(Thanks for asking the question, otherwise I never would have found this amazing article. I love it when people dive deep into silly things such as "trans girl pickle meme".)
A beautiful finger painting my 19mo son made me of a butterfly and the words "and she became a beautiful butterfly
Oh fuck off that's so incredibly adorable and wholesome. I love it. That's the purest form of support right there. Thanks for sharing, this made my day a bit brighter.
I think the pandemic had a big impact as well. Social distancing meant that people were isolated from the forces that usually made them perform cisheteronormativity, and a lot of people realized "oh hey I'm queer actually".
I know quite a few "COVID queers", including myself.
I'm glad you had a good time, at least as far as funerals go! It helps when you know the person isn't suffering anymore, for sure. Sidenote: I absolutely love your glasses, they suit you well :)
Again and again, transphobes prove that their rhetoric of queer and trans people supposedly causing harm to children is nothing more than projection.
We need to protect kids from conservatives, not from trans folks and drag queens.