@my3girls, I have the same sense that it is becoming more common, although still far from common.
I can see more trans women applying as transfers or perhaps after a gap year to start with.
I think that the transgendered population will always be small.
Personally, I tend to think that all humans live on some sort of gender and sexuality continuum. I resist the idea that individuals ought to have to pick a gender or a sexuality as fixed points. I’d like to see us get beyond that.
Some day, perhaps.