does not necessarily mean that for centuries there have been significant numbers of transgender people who have been unable to express themselves, any more than the rapid increase of sales in smartphones in the last decade indicates that vast numbers of people in previous generations lived lives of inauthenticity because they were unable to post trivia about their lives onto the web while traveling to work or sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. But it does not allow us to dismiss these feelings as unreal in the way they exist today.
