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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?[/quote]

[b]Trans people have become more visible[/b] in the last several years. This has led to them being accepted and demonized a lot more. I don't know which of those is chicken and which is egg.

It has also become a proxy war over gender relations generally. The people who want to exclude trans people from things tend to also be people who want society to enforce gender roles more rigidly for cis-men and cis-women. The people who want to be more welcoming of trans people tend to also be people who want society to relax or abandon gender roles.  [/quote]

Trans people have become more numerous.  The numbers have skyrocketed.  That's why they are more visible, there are many more than there were 5 years ago, and many many more than there were 10 years ago.  [/quote]
Yes, people tend to come out of the closet more readily when they see other people doing the same.[/quote]

Chicken and egg, indeed. [b]Trans isn't a biological existence[/b] so one does wonder how much of it is driven by cultural phenomena and personal beliefs and enabling people. Which, of course, gets to the heart of the matter as the gender divisions in sports is based on biological differences between the genders. Still, the scarcity of older people coming out as trans compared to coming out as gay or lesbian when gay rights became more established is telling. [/quote]

It might not be that simple. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17875490/#:~:text=As%20sexual%20differentiation%20of%20the,each%20other%2C%20resulting%20in%20transsexuality.

Abstract

During the intrauterine period the human brain develops in the male direction via direct action of a boy's testosterone, and in the female direction through the absence of this hormone in a girl. During this time, gender identity (the feeling of being a man or a woman), sexual orientation, and other behaviors are programmed. As sexual differentiation of the genitals takes places in the first 2 months of pregnancy, and sexual differentiation of the brain starts during the second half of pregnancy, these two processes may be influenced independently of each other, resulting in transsexuality. This also means that in the case of an ambiguous gender at birth, the degree of masculinization of the genitals may not reflect the same degree of masculinization of the brain. Differences in brain structures and brain functions have been found that are related to sexual orientation and gender.[/quote]

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