It's always been true. The difference between now and in the past is that you were told to suck it up and deal with it. Because you had no other choice. You learned to accept that being female = heightened risk of unwanted sexual attention, and you developed strategies to minimize the chances of that happening, as well as coping mechanisms and support if it did happen. Some coping strategies are unhealthy (Self harm, smoking, drugs, drinking, eating disorders, etc), but most women end up more or less fine and mostly just vent to other women about how much they hate perverted men when they're having a bad day.
These days, girls are still going through this shit, but there are a couple of important differences in how girls are being raised and their response to handling negative feelings and unwanted sexual attention. Girls are growing up exposed to porn and sexual content, far more than any previous generation, by a huge margin. When I was growing up, yeah I saw porn, but it was harder to stumble upon, and it was well known by everyone that porn was something only certain women did, it was not seen as inspirational or something your average women should aspire to do. Contrast that with today, porn is everywhere, and worse, social media push the idea that porn is empowering and totally awesome. Places like Teen Vouge are pushing the idea of anal sex and poly relationships on literal kids, ffs. Girls are learning "Sex is awesome and I should be sexual", and to not feel this way means there's something "wrong" with them.
The type of things I remember being pressured into as a kid/teen was stuff like, wearing a thong, or stuffing your bra. These days, girls are feeling pressured into knowing all about anal sex or "safe breath play" type stuff before they've even lost all of their baby teeth. Peer pressure sucks for everyone, but I feel like peer pressure today is far worse. I worry about young girls that are being gas lighted by society into believing that it's a good to be sexualized and know all about adult sexual fetishes. This kind of stuff was seen as something only sexual freaks did, it was never seen as something common. Yet we are now at the point where middle schoolers are talking about how they want to be choked by their crush.
I'm not even exaggerating, literally read my 11 year old niece's discord chats and her and her friends were talking about some male celebrity they found cute. They were saying stuff like "omg choke me daddy".
The other thing this generation has that previous generations didn't have is a "cure" to opt out of womanhood. This was never an option in other points in history. Rather than getting solid advice and support, girls are now being told they can simply
stop being a woman! No more pesky periods or being overly sexual/sexualized, no more feeling weak and powerless; you can simply become a man and all your problems will go away. On the surface, it sounds awesome, especially if you don't have access to real troon information (such as how dangerous hormones are, or how bottom surgery will never look or act as a real penis). If those carefully curated troons stories are to be believed, then FtMs are real men. You just take some hormones and change your clothes. Poof! You're a man now! Obviously, we know this is just a cruel lie and that no one can change their birth sex.
I'm not surprised in the least that the highest troon demographic is teen girls. Trooning out is simply another unhealthy coping mechanism for girls and young women, the only difference with this compared to smoking or eating disorders is that it has the backing of medical and government institutions. You aren't going to see PSAs about the danger of hormone blockers by your school or government like they did with drugs and self harm, instead the institutions that should be protecting our children are the ones pushing this nonsense. Hell, you can see this yourself on KF, every day on someone posts a new thread about some school teaching this nonsense to children.
(Obviously, it goes without saying that not all girls troon out because of puberty or being overly sexualized. There are other factors that can contribute to trooning out, such as kids growing up believing that being "cis" is bad, being sexually abused, being groomed, or just being severely mentally ill. etc)