1. The numbers have flipped
Until about 2010, almost everyone who asked for medical “transition” in the UK was male. That picture has reversed. By 2019, Britain’s main youth gender service was receiving roughly three girls for every boy. One man who watched it happen writes: “In those five years the sex ratio goes from (roughly) 8:5 female-to-male to 3:1” – MrNoneSuch source [citation:0e359b8a-672f-40e0-b402-f6af1c69586b]. The same reversal is visible in adult clinics, where women now seek hormones and surgery at least as often as men. Historical stereotypes (“most trans people are male”) no longer describe today’s waiting-lists.

2. Social pressure, not biology, is driving the female surge
Several posters say girls are reacting to a perfect storm of body-hatred, homophobia, and online glamourisation of medical transition. One woman explains: “Women have been demonstrated to be particularly susceptible to crowd influence… confused young women grabbing onto the new get-happy-fast scheme which is transition” – UniquelyDefined source [citation:93e2b749-84d0-4268-9d38-b71fe283bf47]. In countries where girls are told “tomboys are really boys,” gender non-conformity gets relabelled as a medical condition instead of a healthy personality trait.

3. Adult males follow a different pattern
Among older transitioners, the fastest-growing group is heterosexual men who say they are lesbians after starting hormones. A 2011 survey quoted by one commenter found that “about 80–90 % of MtF transsexuals in the UK and USA were non-homosexual” – YoungModern source [citation:17467330-708b-442c-a3fb-39b2a9ccb3f0]. In plain language, most adult male applicants are not fleeing homophobia; they are fleeing the shame of feeling aroused by cross-dressing or by imagining themselves as women. Their distress is real, but it is psychological, not anatomical.

4. Detransition stories mirror the new ratios
Because far more girls are starting hormones, far more girls are also stopping them. One man observes: “T is a much harsher drug than E. It makes you go bald, it makes you hairy… so it’s harder to justify staying on T if a transition is going wrong” – recursive-regret source [citation:1db1b492-fcbe-4a58-8bf6-bf63b0d788f4]. The visible rise in “detrans females” is not proof that women are more confused than men; it is proof that when you medicalise ordinary gender non-conformity, many will later realise the problem was never their body.

5. Culture, not chromosomes, decides who shows up at the clinic
The same survey shows that in most Asian and Latin-American clinics almost every MtF patient is homosexual, while autogynephilic (heterosexual) MtFs are rare. One writer concludes: “In countries where the majority… are homosexual there are much stronger traditional gender roles and much less tolerance of homosexuality” – YoungModern source [citation:17467330-708b-442c-a3fb-39b2a9ccb3f0]. In other words, when society punishes gay people, some ask for hormones to “become straight.” When society punishes gender non-conforming girls, some ask for hormones to “become boys.” The common thread is social shame, not an innate mismatch between soul and flesh.

Conclusion
Today’s transition statistics are a weather-vane pointing to cultural storms: misogyny, homophobia, and rigid gender rules. Whether you are a girl who hates her breasts or a man haunted by cross-sex fantasies, the kindest route is not surgery but the slow work of self-acceptance—learning to live comfortably in the sexed body you already have while rejecting the stereotypes that never fit. Healing is possible without hormones, without scalpels, and without pretending to be someone else.