Just to briefly get into the trans discussion that Dalak and Mets are having. I will politely insist upon calling it a discussion.
When I first became aware of how much of an issue trans was becoming, I looked into it. I saw an interview with Abigail Shrier. I watched a bunch of Jesse Gender podcasts and still do.
It took zero time (5-10 minutes) after the Shrier interview to start watching the JG podcast and pause it to check the claims.
A huge amount of Shrier's research was simply interviewing parents from three websites that were specifically anti-trans. She never even spoke to the kids.
She also hugely quoted the study by Lisa Littman, who coined the phrase, Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, "Rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is a controversial, scientifically unsupported hypothesis which claims that some adolescents identify as transgender and experience gender dysphoria due to peer influence and social contagion.[5]"
Maybe Shrier did not know how discredited Littman's study was. Then again, I found out quickly and I'm just doing a post on CBR. She wrote a book published nationwide that could have a horribly negative effect on an already marginalized group. And I'm supposed to believe she didn't know how discredited it was? Bull! She had a predetermined viewpoint that wouldn't change based on facts. I started mildly in that viewpoint but, y'know, facts.
Speaking to your point about why identifying openly as trans has diminished again, when I was young, my mother, not knowing I was bi or gay, said, "If these homosexuals don't think what they feel is wrong, why do they hide it?", a question so completely ignorant of reality that I just walked away.
https://theorion.com/85233/opinion/a...-limited-data/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-...ia_controversy