That isn't a coincidence. Trans has been made cool, so now the mentally ill want to identify that way. States pay for surgeries and hormones and doctors make money. I know someone who has been mentally ill for their whole life. They get an apartment and allowance from the state. They are schizophrenic and have been treated as such for decades. What happened in the last several years? They now identify as trans. Social workers don't care what the family says (”the person is an adult, they can make their own decision”). Whether they see stuff on TV and/or the system pushes them to that thought, I'm not sure. So, now taxpayers pay for their hormones and surgery too. What a sad state of affairs for our mental health care system.