Okay, here's a taste of what I think is "peak trans", and how I believe that we actually are going through moments of people getting "peaked" in recent years.
So, I've mentioned it before, I'm a Californian who doesn't currently live in California anymore. Therefore, in my youth I had the "pleasure" or "misfortune" (really your pick) of growing up in said state.
I tried to be a "leftist", like most teenagers I was confused, full of hormones, and trying to figure out the world like everyone else. I not only lived in a leftist, democratic-majority state, but all my peers were left-leaning as well. The 2010s are so important to me not just because of the fact that's when a lot of "wokeness", tumblr opinions, and LGBT opinions really started to sprout up more in the mainstream, it's the fact that I was in my teenhood in the 2010s.
Unlike other teenagers, I actually browsed 4chan and /b/ (not the best board of choice, but arguably a step above /pol/). Even before this account existed, I sometimes dabbled in browsing KF. I remember Gamergate going down, SOPA, Edward Snowden's "traitorous" act against the CIA, BLM came into existence, gay marriage being legalized federally, and of course Bruce Jenner becoming "Caitlyn". Unlike most of my peers, I was open to "the other side", I was open to crazy crackpot /pol/ Holocaust theories, not just because I thought they "made me think a little differently", but because it was funny, it was different, it wasn't the same bullshit woke/leftist talking points that I had to deal with from my own, teenaged peers.
And then transgender topics started to flood in, I'd argue around 2013-2015 was when it really hit the ground running. I had already lost (internet) friends to the tranny mindset, I already was becoming against the LGBT talking points, but you cannot go against the grain when the majority of your peers are leftist or left-leaning. I was in H.S. by this point. I still remember the inklings that I was "peaking", and it was two points.
One, I had a friend who showed me Eurovision's 2014 winner, "Conchita Wurst", and the biggest talking point was the fact that "she" was trans, I also remember the bushy beard Conchita has being another big talking point. "Isn't so cool!?", my obvious grimace and "what the fuck" look told my friend everything else. I seriously didn't understand how anyone would find it "interesting", or even "inspiring". Oh, I should also mention this happened in my H.S. "Gay-Straight Alliance" club after school.
The second time, which also happened in "GSA", was when everyone was going around talking a bit about themselves. It was more about "showing solidarity, and that GSA is a safe space!" than making true introductions. It also was a way for "the straights" to ask questions and have a better understanding of people's "sexualities, pronouns, and whatever else that may be important." One girl made it a point to say she was "demisexual", and being the sort of "debate kid", I tried to tackle that topic. Upon asking what the hell a "demisexual" even was, I got the explanation. A demisexual is someone who does not have sexual attraction to someone unless an emotional or romantic connection is made, AKA, "I'm not a whore and I prefer to actually get to know someone to see if they're a good fit for me." I pretty much told this to this girl, that this wasn't a sexuality, and it isn't, because it has nothing to do with sex or "gender". It's a sexuality completely based on personal feeling. Naturally I got tore the fuck open, I actually made this girl genuinely pissed, and my social reputation started to go down the shitter once it had left "GSA". I stopped going to that club after some time because it obviously wasn't for me, and I wasn't going to go to a space where I knew I wasn't "supposed" to feel welcome.
I know, it's a lot of words, "What is the point?" The point is the fact that you cannot go against these opinions. They already were making it very clear even before 2016 that they wanted all this weird gender ideology shit to become the new normal. The most my parents had to worry about was me being "bisexual" (grew out of it, naturally) or being "androgynous" (I just liked to dress up in "masculine" clothing, had a weird thing against the color pink, again, I grew out of this), because this was the shit that was surrounding me when I was in my teens. It's now evolved and gone beyond that. Sexualities can now be a "innate feeling" that has nothing to do with the sex of a human being (like demisexuality), "gender" is just a "social construct", you can "be whatever you FEEL you want to be". Nobody, I and mean nobody I went to school with, had ever thought about becoming trans or nonbinary until after 2016/2017/2018 when we were all officially graduating and/or becoming legal adults. One friend was a flamboyant gay, he immediately trooned out after school, knew another gay where on graduation he showed up in a dress and made his "coming out" announcement. Many female friends ended up going the nonbinary route, even the one friend who I shared Moonman memes with has tread the nonbinary "I'm a special snowflake" line and it saddens me to no end.
If "peak trans" is a cope, then yes I'm coping, I'm coping the loss of people I once knew. I'm coping the loss of normalcy in modern people, and I know I'm not the only person feeling and thinking this way.