Be careful. In the minds of the trans deluded, there are two possibilities.
1. The vast majority of children presenting as trans, revert to their birth gender after a short period. This is evidence that trans gender is an entirely artificial state brought upon by woke culture grooming the vulnerable through extreme leftist teaching.
2. The vast majority of children presenting as trans, permanently reject their birth gender after and persist in gender affirming strategies in their new gender. This too is evidence that trans gender is an entirely artificial state brought upon by woke culture grooming the vulnerable through extreme leftist teaching.
Somehow, both possibilities exist at the same time, and are used interchangeably to project the lie that transgender children are the victims of grooming.
I replied to this differently, referencing backup's post. But now I'll deal with this itself.
People identify as transgender for different reasons. For some, there's real gender dysphoria - a distress they experience from an incongruence between their biological sex and what they perceive their gender is. This comes from a combination of what they feel internally and also what society tells them boys and girls "are like". If gender identity is truly disconnected from biological sex, then one's feeling about their gender can only come from some sort of external model or norm or image of what boys and girls "are like". If that image doesn't match how they feel, then they're going to experience some degree of gender dysphoria.
Another possibility is that society sends messages to people that they're trans. In impressionable young people, there exists a phenomenon called "rapid onset gender dysphoria", and honestly, it's more of a young people's "fad", if you will. It's a person experiencing some other confusion in life, maybe has some sexual confusion going on, and reads a ton (normally, but obviously not limited to, social media) and hears from those around them that they must be transgender, and so they adopt that identity.
We KNOW that society has this kind of impact on impressionable young people. Why else would so many do things like eat Tide pods? They do SO MANY things due to the influence of culture.
So what happens is that, left on their own, up to 90% of teens that identify as trans grow out of it. The data is abundant and it's clear on that. HOWEVER, if they are given puberty blockers, their normal physical processes are greatly altered, and it actually "pushes" people to be more likely to maintain a transgender identity. It does so because you're messing with their biology, with their hormones. You change a normally functioning body and you make it function in an abnormal way, and of course that's going to have consequences.
So you've got little 11 year old Susie who might have sexual affinity for other girls, but doesn't want to be known as "lesbian". She may have other, more typically masculine, characteristics and interests. And when her friends and social media talk about how brave it is to be transgender, and how if you are a girl and like boy things, you're probably transgender, little 11 year old Susie announces that she's transgender. And the teachers and other people in her life are told they have to affirm Susie in this, so they do. So it solidifies this notion in her, and she decides she wants to transition. Now if left on her own, she'd grow out of this - 90% likely, anyway. But if she's given puberty blockers, suddenly that 90% number goes down a lot, and since her body's natural and normal function has been distorted and disrupted, she's more likely to continue in a transgender identity.
So transgender identity isn't "artificial"; it normally begins with some internal feeling that's disconnected with his or her sense of gender. But THAT sense of gender is greatly influenced by the social messaging he or she receives.
Hope that helps.