Proving the existence of noise does not prove the non-existence of a signal.

Maybe because we have more trans people we get more accepting and not the other way around? Just a thought, correlation is not causation and all that.

These things are not mutually exclusive. I don't see any evidence that would justify a high degree of confidence that the person you're replying to is wrong.

The extraordinary claim is the top comment: that trans people are exploding in count vs it being a repressed demographic.

It is the obligation of THAT person to provide evidence, since they are making the claim that it is some "evil toxin in the environment".

Nobody has said that the population is exploding or that there is an evil toxin. The evidence here is for a proliferation of endocrine disrupting compounds. Given that gender expression is affected by hormones, I don't see how the claim is extraordinary.

Why is the "West" in quotes? Typically authors use that to refer to a phrase they're replying to, but parent comment doesn't mention that.

Alternatively, quotes are sometimes used in a dismissive manner, but it would be unusual for an author to be dismissive of a word and yet find value in introducing it into a conversation.