He was hardly the start. Richard Raskind (AKA Renée Richards) was doing it at about the same time Bruce was winning his Olympic decathlon gold medal.
I think I read somewhere that mutant has expressed its regrets!
Geez, I had forgotten all about that weirdo. Somehow we all knew he was sick in the head, as he wasn’t the cutting edge of this flood of mentally ill people.
Frankly, I blame several things.
The turning away from God.
The breakdown of the nuclear family and the subsequent absence of fathers from many lives.
The evil delivered voluntarily through media.
The medical profession for venturing into trying to alter anyone’s sex rather than treat the mental illness.
The flood of acceptance and celebration of such insanity.
Lots of anger out there with young people. It’s got to come out.