Many things are seeming to occur more often because there are way more of us. As for transgender people, it's becoming more accepted, which makes it easier to come out and be yourself.
Why are there "more of us"? What do you think is causing this problem?
It appears to me to be something that is not just "accepted"...but "promoted" these days. When you have teachers in public schools encouraging pre-pubescent children to "come out" if they demonstrate the slightest propensity to be leaning towards behaving like the opposite sex, I think it's out of control. (This happened to a friend of mine so she hauled her son out of school.)
Planting ideas about gender with children who are not ready to confront gender issues is wrong. Let them just be kids. Let those kids as adults make those decisions.
In Australia a while ago, a mother took it upon herself to dispense HRT to her young teenage son entering puberty, who was having gender identity issues. He started to develop breasts and to display many female traits, yet as he got older, he realised that he didn't really want to be female, he actually wanted to be a gay male. So now there was all the complications of undoing the damage done by the hormones. He needed surgery to remove his breasts.
There are other cases like this.....leave the kids alone and allow them to make their own decisions when they are adults.
Beyond that, we have no evidence to support hormonal imbalances cause people to be transgender.
Whatever is causing it.....it's making its presence felt all over the world, even impacting on legal definitions by removing any reference to gender. For those who believe in God, it is not normal or natural to be in gender confusion. The sexes have only one purpose in nature....to procreate. You get to understand the problem when pregnancy becomes an unwanted side effect of one's sex life. Gay people don't have that problem because sex is not about having babies.
When sex becomes a purely physical act, I believe that it has lost sight of its noble intent.
Nope, because my body betrayed me in numerous ways. Such as, I have bowed shins and bad knees, and I hurt just about every day. That is my body. My body was born male, and has some features I can't get rid of.
However, I do identify with my brain and mind. They too are prone to hurt and injury, but that is where "I" am found.
God promises that, in the world to come, all will have perfect physical bodies with no gender confusion, no aging, no pain or sickness, and never losing loved ones to death.
All it requires is an understanding of why the world at present is such a hard place to live in, even if you have no gender issues. Everything it seems, is out of whack.
The Bible reveals that we are all under test here. Like all tests, we can either pass or fail. Wouldn't you like to know how to pass? Gender issues are just a small part of man's problems that need to be overcome. The Bible explains that God's enemy has taunted the Creator with the challenge that if he could make life tough, that we would all abandon God. Was he right?
I believe that any sacrifice will be worth it.....you may not.