It's stunning. I read an article years back which I swear must have been scrubbed because I can't find it for the life of me that was written by a child psychologist in Australia and in his experience the instances of people claiming to experience dysphoria had skyrocketed but by his estimation 80 to 90 percent were not genuine cases but results of peer pressure and broader social cues.

In other words it had become fashionable.

The Quilette article is very interesting especially given the amount of adolescent girls succumbing to the cluster outbreak phenomenon. It sort of reminds me of those odd events in history where in a given area girls, one after the other, just start to faint or scream or exhibit other strange behaviour. Girls social radars are so well designed that it's like they almost read each others minds.

When I was growing up I'd play pictionary with my cousins. It would be me and my male cousin versus two other girls usually. We lost every time because we were trying to actually logically or technically explain to each other what we were trying to draw. My girl cousins just drew a stick and a circle then all of a sudden 'Dignity!' and they got the answer. It was really weird how sensitive they were to each others minds.