Left Handed

If I had been born 100 years earlier, I would have spent my school days with my left hand tied behind my back.

Societal pressure would have sought to prevent my handedness from being expressed. We cared more about conformity than about sense of self.

When this pressure decreased, there was a rapid “explosion” in left-handedness: it increased from none to around 12% within just a few years. And then it stabilized. The truth is, around 12% of people have always been left handed; now, they’re free to actually express their handedness.

When we empower more people to be their authentic selves, we are going to find that certain human attributes are going to start to be more visible. This can seem shockingly rapid if we don’t take into account that these attributes were repressed by societal pressure.

They’ll stabilize; and just as there weren’t fewer left handers in the past than there are now, the same is likely true for all sorts of human attributes. Gay, non-binary, and transgender, to name three: these people have always been here and are finally a little more free to be who they are.