It's probably a combination of ibuprofen and birth control pills tainting the water supply enough to result in horomonal signaling.<p>It's weird, because you look back to 40 years ago, and the lack of gender dysphoria didn't seem nearly as prevalent, and I don't think that's because of pressure to enforce social conformity. I must admit, the plastic surgery didn't exist, and maybe we're worse for having it.<p>It's possible that perception has simply been altered by the internet's capacity to surface specialty subcultures, but even so, I feel like it's a really, <i>really</i> strange thing for so many men these days to push as hard as they do to live as women. And it really does seem like there's a lot more traffic heading in that direction and not the reverse.<p>So it would make sense to me, that part of this gradient of diffusion is also other reproductive system problems. There's probably a wide grey zone of infertility without gender dysphoria, and the higher rates of gender dysphoria are the extreme cases of the root cause of male infertility.<p>It would make sense to me if it works out this way, although, I am uncertain that these are really the facts.<p>I just don't remember people being like this, the way things are now. The 1970's had a lot going on, and then we saw promiscuity kill up to 50,000 annualy when AIDS hit. Now, higher rates of gender dysphoria and infertility, so what gives?