"Advances in technology and social media have created an environment conducive to unique and unconventional identities, the authors state. The Internet has made it much easier for individuals to discover and work out new identities that can help them understand themselves better".

Not satire, just the side effect of an ignorant journalist peering into the improperly-credited works of someone who has looked into, or is part of, a movement which was seeking to make people accept that sometimes humans aren't humans.

I'm dead serious - this is an actually very mild case, as there's whole communities out there of people that strive to make us accept that "fluid-panromantic bearkin" (which, from what I can gather, translates into "my gender changes to, and from, and between male and female and neither and both depending on factors, I can be attracted to members of both genders though generally it is more of a social, bonding nature than sexual, and I associate more with bear culture than any human culture" - but personally, I interpret as "I change my gender whenever the voices in my head tell me to/whenever I feel like it, haven't matured psychologically past high school and I really really like bears/bears are my spirit animals").

So while I don't entirely disagree with the article, it's for completely different reasons - we need better tools to deal with whatever disillusionment these people suffer from, and the causes of said disillusionment.