In the last several years, the U.S. has become fixated on a story.

The subject of transgender kids has moved into the mainstream.

That a growing number of young people are identifying as trans.

We are in a new dawn of gender and sex complexity.

A lot of people claim it's just a new fad.

Some of it is this kind of a trendy thing to be.

Normal phases are being misidentified as a kid being trans.

Relaterally experimenting on children.

Trendy, new, experimental.

Some lawmakers are using this idea to argue for anti-trans legislation.

The weight of anti-trans bills passed in states across the gum is too young for a child.

On gender-affirming care for kids in Louisiana.

Stop at nothing to protect women's sports for women.

But just how new is gender transition for young people?

I'm Lane Kaplan-Levinson, the host of all the Only Ones.

A new series from NPR's embedded about American trans youth over the last century.

Generations of trans kids have grown up thinking they're the only ones.

Even though history shows they're not.

I've felt for a long time like your girl trapped in a boy's body trying to get out.

For years, I have thought I was the only person in the world like that.

Perhaps I am young, I felt this way all my life.

And I have only lately heard that there are other people with the same feelings.

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