I'm just thinking about how so many people coming out as trans is taken as proof that society is more accepting of differences than before. If anything imo it is the opposite, when I was a teenager in the 2000s you could just be a non gender conforming man or woman. It wasn't 100% accepted, you might still face some sort of discrimination, but it was mainstream enough that it wasn't too big of a deal. We might not be formally allowed to define what a man or a woman are anymore but societal views of gender roles seem to be about as strict as they've been since the 1950s. I feel like a lot of people who are coming out as trans, especially teenagers, would have been perfectly happy just being a man or woman in the 2000s.
But now gender non conformity has been pathologized, and people are being told that they need to "fix"themselves through medical intervention because it is no longer socially acceptable to call yourself a man or woman without playing along with the role that society says a man or woman needs to be in. The thing that really gets me is that it is mainly left wing people who are pushing this, these were the "pizza roles not gender roles" people 15 years ago who were the biggest advocates of accepting gender non conformity. They've done a complete 180 in what they believe and the worst part is they refuse to acknowledge this.