Current demographic information seems to suggest that transgender people are no more frequent than they have been historically, just more visible / likely to come out.

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. I've seen more people come out as a part of some minority in last several years than, say, in 2000s in general, and that's not a time span during which any alleged and meaningful genetic or biological changes could play a role. It's just a much better and safer time to come out compared to everything before.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost exactly the same kind of situation with mental illnesses such as Autism or ADHD, you see people scream that the rates are rising and trying to pin it on external factors without even considering that the medical diagnosis/process and tracking of all of that has consistently improved, it just makes sense we'd be seeing more examples as previously undiagnosed "weird" people are able to diagnosed.

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mental illnesses such as Autism or ADHD

These aren't really illnesses, though. Think of it as of being left- or right-handed - it's your brain functioning in a different way, but not a pathological one.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh, they consider it a-typical, it's basically considered a mental illness. "neurotypical"

Let me clarify to say, I don't think there's inherently anything actually "wrong" with non-neuotypical folks, I have ADD for sure and I know it's definitely an impediment to myself in various aspects of my life in ways neurotypicals also experience from time to time, but not on a near constant basis like some of the population.

Like most things in life, it's a sliding scale :p

[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why, that could only mean that micro plastics have always been around. /s