Fekko all good points and this needs researching.
To me this whole trend - and I do mean the trend, not the small transsexual population who are as frustrated by this as everyone else - equals a massive failure in mental health for children and adolescents. These people have way too much time on their hands and too little to think about to be this self obsessed, the egocentricism and emotional immaturity is writ large over so much of what is said and written - are these kids who have been over nurtured, over attended to, over supervised, or somehow emotionally deprived, to the point where they haven't managed to individuate successfully? The wanting to run to the police and the courts over every tiny slight, the need for constant validation, the wanting to divide society into the givers and the takers with a thick line dividing the two, and the fury that not everyone with a vagina will automatically provide unconditional nurture, mothering and support while enduring the toddler batterings of rage and belittlement? It's interesting how many of the well known leaders are public school products, it makes me wonder about attachment or lack of it. A massive expectation of others (subservient others) being constantly available to provide unconditional and high standard care, with no emotional responsibility or connection towards them.
Its also providing a very convenient and fun new way for men to have midlife crises.