If you were born in the late 1930s, the chances of you declaring yourself to be what we call “ transgender ” or “nonbinary” as an adult were almost zero. For the next 60 years, that number hovered around 0.4%, despite dramatic changes in sexual equality and sexual morality. This number rose suddenly after 2008, when the cohort born in 1990 came of age. The late millennials were “digital natives”: the first children of the internet and social media . They were 13 years old in 2003, when the pioneering social networking site Myspace launched, and 16 years old when Twitter arrived in 2006. They were 17 years old in 2007, when the delivery system was upgraded by the release of the first iPhone and the refashioning of online personality refined by the microblogging website Tumblr.

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