I have been following the trans movement and all it's glory for many years, but something that has never quite settled with me is the cause of this explosion.
I know it is a multi-factorial question and there are certainly many factors involved here ( social contagion, post-modern politics, lack of religion/meaning etc.) but I do still wonder if there is some biological basis for this explosion, namely how our endocrine systems are being impacted by all the toxins in the environment.
Pesticides (atrazine) that are known to alter hormones in animals, literally turning them from male to female https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/, we have pthalates in plastic that none of us can avoid, we have diethylstilbestrol which is in contraceptive pills that are shown to masculinise the brains of female fetuses, we have the PBDEs that are the flame retardant chemicals used on our furniture.....you get the picture - all of these things are shown explicitly to disrupt the endocrine system and all of us are exposed to them.
Put this alongside our knowledge that sperm count has absolutely dive bombed over the past 50 years, we know that something is going on with our hormones and endocrine systems.
I just wonder about all of this and transgenderism - what do people think? Could this be driving the explosion?
If there is a biological basis to it, I sort of feel like it shifts the argument somewhat.