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This is similar to what we saw regarding homosexuality in the past. It wasn't that more people were suddenly gay. It was that more people who were gay felt safe admitting it.
Couldn't agree more CC. I think that at least in modern enlightened liberal democracies we have seen a shift in attitudes towards gay people and I think that that is incredible progress to make in a few generations. Much, much more needs to happen but, in my living memory I have seen society move such that my kids were totally indifferent when friends of theirs came out. It just was not an issue for them.
At the moment, I see transgender and transsexuality as being the fatties of sex and gender. In comedy it is still seen as quite acceptable to laugh at the fatties but much has changed and will change.