>Social breakdown in the west caused by internet, dating apps, internet shopping closing down malls and towns, inflation rates disallowing frivolous spending on cheap social expenditures. Dating apps fuel sexual selectiveness hysteria.
>This subsequently leads to a lack of social third spaces, places for young people to socialize and develop sexual identities in the real-world.
>Spend more time alone, in rooms, online as a result
>This causes higher incidences of hobby-seeking
>Loneliness drives atomized young individual to lonesome hobbies i.e. watching anime
>Hyper-sexualization present in anime and the quasi-social nature present within anime (slice-of-life anime etc.) acts as a replacement for the social breakdown that has defined and deprived their life so far
>This leads to an identification with the anime characters on screen at some psychological level and a subtle want and need to have their life
>Repetition of the feeling via the acquisition of hobby drives it into the subconscious
>Find like-minded people online (again, lonesome para-social activity)
>Community feels same way. Love-bombing. An identity is formed where there would otherwise be none.
>Human beings desire identity.
>Identity not formed through healthy means i.e. real-world socialization in social spaces becomes toxic and all-consuming; exacerbated by loneliness in feedback loop
>This will eventually extend to their sexuality as sexuality is inherently social
>This creates higher incidents of transsexuality: the relief of "becoming".

So the answer all along was that anime was just a small cog in a larger, more broken, faultier machine.
It's BECAUSE anime is hyper-sexualized that is causing incidents of transsexualism in this machine. That is the teeth of the cog in this matter.
Notice how it's never Gundam Wing or mecha anime driving this crisis of sexuality. It's the hyper-sexualized moe moe cutesey slice of life animes doing it.