Cotton Ceiling was 2012. That was the notorious workshop run by TIMs to try and get lesbians to have sex with them. Notably, the advertising flyer of the event said something like, "we are already welcomed into lesbian spaces, and lesbians will work with us and be friends with us but they won't date us or have sex with us." This was deemed a problem that the workshop sought to 'cure'. So that gives you an idea of how entrenched a lot of this already was by 2012, that a TIM was basically saying men had already fully infiltrated lesbian spaces. Also it shows lesbians were fucking morons (sorry to say it about my own people, but it's true) for not understanding the escalation that would undoubtedly occur after the first boundary was breached.

The dysphoria/born in the wrong body narrative has been superseded by a kind of idea of pick'n'mix with regards to gender/sex/gender identity. This is pretty recent, I'd say it's really started happening in the wake of gay marriage being legalised in countries like the US and UK. It's a new money-making cause for charities who had outlived some of their usefulness. Some of it is fashion statement, some of it is trying to survive homophobia (for the LGB kids who get sucked in), some of it is predators and opportunists who see they can get something out of it.

The thing that is important to understand is that the movement didn't come out of nowhere. The seeds for a lot of this were sewn a long time ago, I'd say mostly in the first decade of the 2000s. But not many were paying attention, and those who were, weren't listened to. So this movement has been quietly trundling along, making changes, taking over groups and organisations, promoting itself in academia as an offshoot of queer theory, changing laws, getting politicians onside. And now the whole thing has reached critical mass and the rubber is hitting the road and we're starting to see the end results of all of this happening in the real world. And this is the point at which many people realise everything has changed around them.