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Why do you assume there are increased rates of either? There is no reliable historical data on how prevalent homosexuality or transgenderism were.

• ralfd 4y ago
  There is data. We can simply ask boomers if they are gay/trans. Though that doesn’t help in examining if the measurable change in the Zoomer generation is physical (nature) or social (nurture).
  • foldr 4y ago
    There’s obviously been an increase in self-identification of people as gay/trans as social acceptance has increased, but that doesn’t mean that the number of gay and trans individuals is actually greater than it was historically. We don’t know how many men worldwide were attracted to other men 1000 years ago. Period.
    • wkat4242 4y ago
      Yeah killing people for who they are attracted to really seems to make them hide that fact. Who'd have thought. Ps men aren't the only gender that can be gay obviously.
      • foldr 4y ago
        Yeah, sorry, should have been clearer that that was just an example. Same obviously applies for women attracted to women, trans people, etc. etc.
  • midoridensha 4y ago
    Asking boomers if they're gay/trans isn't a reliable way of getting that data. Just look at all the conservative Christian politicians who self-identify as straight, but then are caught in gay sex scandals.
  • kube-system 4y ago
    Many boomers grew up in places where coming out would have subjected them to forcible "conversion" practices, pariah status, criminal prosecution, or violence. To stay safe, many gay people of older generations were just people who "had a room mate" and/or "never married". Some of these people may answer differently today, but I don't imagine it is easy after living a life of being conditioned otherwise.
    • smt88 4y ago
      I also personally know boomers who are definitely bisexual, but they don't really accept or understand the concept of bisexuality, so they round themselves to straight or gay (mostly straight).
• xupybd 4y ago
  "Our estimate of the number of youth who identify as transgender has doubled from our previous estimate" https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/ https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-ad... There is some evidence of a sharp increase in transgenderism in young people . None in the article people are commenting on and I'm not aware of any data linking that increase to chemical influence.
  • vore 4y ago
    Are there actually more transgender people, or are people more willing to self-identify as transgender? Compared to 20 years ago, being openly transgender was far more taboo, so it follows that people were less willing to identify as transgender for these kinds of surveys. As an aside, "transgenderism" is a relatively contentious term because while historically it had a purely medical definition, more recently certain groups have reappropriated it to refer to it as if it was an ideology, which does a huge disservice to transgender people.
    • xupybd 4y ago
      That's an interesting question. I doubt we'll ever be able to answer. I do wonder if some of the increase is a shift in how people perceive their own gender. Perhaps some in the non binary would have used different language in the past. I wasn't aware of the term 20 years ago.
      • linminal 4y ago
        I think 'non-binary' gender is most likely a result of people being told that being a man or woman is no longer related to the material reality of one's sex but instead is some mysterious inner feeling of gender identity that can't really be explained or understood except by reference to cultural gender stereotypes. It's the identity of the gap left between these exaggerations of masculinity and femininity. That's also probably why non-binary identity is overwhelmingly the most prevalent amongst the youngest generations, as they've been brought up being taught the ideology of gender identity as if it's a fact.