Same Comment, Two Different Responses

I was in a thread yesterday about trans women in sports. Anyway, my contribution was pointing out how nobody ever seems to talk about how trans women don't typically play sports and that as someone who's been playing in LGBTQ sports leagues for a while now, there's never any trans woman.

It wasn't intended to be an expirament but I said this with both this account as well as my non-trans account; the only difference is that I said in this account's comment "As a trans woman...I'm typically the only one" and the other was simply saying "There's basically no trans women." What happened is not what I expected...

My non-trans account was downvoted and the response was "I play sports with trans women all the time!" and this account's comment received upvotes and a comment saying "Yeah, same." I was fascinated by this being that I said the same thing except only identifying as trans in one of the comments.

Thoughts?