It is not surprising that there would be more youth identifying as transgender in blue states than in red states but what is most surprising and even tragic is that the Southeast region of the US is reporting a higher proportion of youth identifying as transgender than in the west or Midwest.
One wonders how this can be in a region that is known to be staunchly socially conservative and in whom the fear and love of God is far more prevalent than in blue states like NY or CA but then again, as the following news item points out, the public education system is not entirely to blame in every case as not all teachers across the nation teach LGBT ideology to their students; it has actually been made illegal to teach it to certain age groups in some states.
Other factors that might contribute to persuading some youth that their body is a mistake, as one some medical and psychological professionals have pointed out, is that social media and what is called “social contagion” can also have a hand in poisoning the minds of youth into thinking that they are a boy trapped in a girl’s body or a girl trapped in a boy’s body.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/06/u-s-transgender-youth-ever-states/
I know I just posted this on SM just last night but for example, a ten year old boy, raised by two transgender men, (women under the delusion that they are men) has admitted to believing himself to be a girl ever since the age of two and just as these two women believe their own biological gender to be in error, so this child has also been brought up to believe the same about himself.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/09/30/radical-gender-ideology-gives-us-a-10-year-old-trans-fashion-model/
If upbringing, errant education, toxic influences from media, SM, and the entertainment industry are the predominant causes or contributors to gender dysphoria, then no one is necessarily born transgender. They are deluded into thinking that their biological gender is a mistake and may even hate the biological gender to which they were assigned and therefore may desire to be something that they are not nor were ever created to be.