Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

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Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?​

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply...

unherd.com

15 Oct 2025 ~~ By Eric Kaufmann

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
This trend is especially marked in elite institutions. Andover Phillips Academy in suburban Boston surveys over three-quarters of its students annually. In 2023, 9.2% identified as neither male nor female. This year, that number has crashed to just 3%. A similar story emerges at Brown University: 5% of students identified as non-binary in 2022 and 2023, but by 2025 that share had dropped to 2.6%.

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But the drop in mental health issues encompassed all social groups, including trans and queer youth. The post-pandemic decline in mental illness did not immediately trigger a drop in sexual and gender nonconformity; that shift came a year or two later, suggesting other forces are also at work. And while social media use may be in retreat in the world as a whole, Pew finds no change in the online behavior of young Americans through to 2024. This does not seem to be what’s driving the retreat from alternative gender and sexual identity either.
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Whether trans and queer identities will drop to 2010 levels is an open question. But the fact both have declined sharply in just two years is a startling and unanticipated post-progressive development that the education and media establishments will be reluctant to acknowledge.


Commentary:
Those adults which fed and encouraged this crippling dysfunction need prosecuting as all child abusers do! This obsession with sexual perversions and children was sheer Pedophilia crap and my guess is it was adults with weird sexual interests involving children was at the core.
Those who took hormones and got surgery as part of the charade will not be able to undo the damage. Their disfigurement is for life..
They've been telling the young, 'be who you are', well if your a boy, your a boy, a girl a girl.
This is nothing more than a social contagion madness, for those with no willpower, it's called independent thinking.
Some are saying that; "This is nothing more than a social contagion madness”
The answer is NO!
This entire sickness was created and led by Adults, kept going by adults – especially those with the DSA and biased Media.
Now is time to study the who, when, where, how and why of it all – and then Name, Shame, and definitely Prosecute.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Trump is ending the grooming of our children. Child mutilation is over. Convincing children that they can be the opposite sex or a puppy if they want to has ended. Child mutilation is over. And keeping parents in the dark is also over.
It does not take a village to raise a child. It requires devoted parents. Schools educate, parents raise.
If the village raises the child, you end up with the village idiot.

 

[JoeB131]

Trump is ending the grooming of our children. Child mutilation is over. Convincing children that they can be the opposite sex or a puppy if they want to has ended. Child mutilation is over. And keeping parents in the dark is also over.
It does not take a village to raise a child. It requires devoted parents. Schools educate, parents raise.
If the village raises a child, you end up with the village idiot.

Keep believing people you don't like will stop existing if you hate them hard enough.

 

[candycorn]

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?​

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply...

unherd.com

15 Oct 2025 ~~ By Eric Kaufmann

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
This trend is especially marked in elite institutions. Andover Phillips Academy in suburban Boston surveys over three-quarters of its students annually. In 2023, 9.2% identified as neither male nor female. This year, that number has crashed to just 3%. A similar story emerges at Brown University: 5% of students identified as non-binary in 2022 and 2023, but by 2025 that share had dropped to 2.6%.

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But the drop in mental health issues encompassed all social groups, including trans and queer youth. The post-pandemic decline in mental illness did not immediately trigger a drop in sexual and gender nonconformity; that shift came a year or two later, suggesting other forces are also at work. And while social media use may be in retreat in the world as a whole, Pew finds no change in the online behavior of young Americans through to 2024. This does not seem to be what’s driving the retreat from alternative gender and sexual identity either.
~Snip~
Whether trans and queer identities will drop to 2010 levels is an open question. But the fact both have declined sharply in just two years is a startling and unanticipated post-progressive development that the education and media establishments will be reluctant to acknowledge.


Commentary:
Those adults which fed and encouraged this crippling dysfunction need prosecuting as all child abusers do! This obsession with sexual perversions and children was sheer Pedophilia crap and my guess is it was adults with weird sexual interests involving children was at the core.
Those who took hormones and got surgery as part of the charade will not be able to undo the damage. Their disfigurement is for life..
They've been telling the young, 'be who you are', well if your a boy, your a boy, a girl a girl.
This is nothing more than a social contagion madness, for those with no willpower, it's called independent thinking.
Some are saying that; "This is nothing more than a social contagion madness”
The answer is NO!
This entire sickness was created and led by Adults, kept going by adults – especially those with the DSA and biased Media.
Now is time to study the who, when, where, how and why of it all – and then Name, Shame, and definitely Prosecute.

Ahh, Christianity...can't you feel the love!

I think you probably answered your own question there shit brains. When you have the government actively trying to make life harder on persons who identify as LGTBQ, you are certainly going to have fewer persons self identify as LGTBQ. There aren't fewer persons who are LGTBQ mind you; they just are being shoved back into the closet by worthless sacks of shit like yourself.

 

[DukeU]

Keep believing people you don't like will stop existing if you hate them hard enough.

Keep believing the facts will change if you ignore them.

 

[DukeU]

Ahh, Christianity...can't you feel the love!

I think you probably answered your own question there shit brains. When you have the government actively trying to make life harder on persons who identify as LGTBQ, you are certainly going to have fewer persons self identify as LGTBQ. There aren't fewer persons who are LGTBQ mind you; they just are being shoved back into the closet by worthless sacks of shit like yourself.

So...........tolerance then?

 

[Leo123]

Trump is ending the grooming of our children. Child mutilation is over. Convincing children that they can be the opposite sex or a puppy if they want to has ended. Child mutilation is over. And keeping parents in the dark is also over.
It does not take a village to raise a child. It requires devoted parents. Schools educate, parents raise.
If the village raises the child, you end up with the village idiot.

Yes, the government no longer approves of the ridiculous brainwashing of kids under the guise of 'education' and 'equity.' Democrats are letting their radicals run unbridled. It's way past time for Democrats to purge their party of these Marxists, they are killing the party.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Keep believing people you don't like will stop existing if you hate them hard enough.

Love the kids, hate what the groomers have done to them. It will go down as a bizarre period in our history.

US clinics have performed breast removal surgery on 180 girls under age TWELVE since 2017, new transgender data shows.​

Girls, when you were twelve, did you consider removing your breasts? It is macabre, and nothing a child would concoct on their own.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Ahh, Christianity...can't you feel the love!

I think you probably answered your own question there shit brains. When you have the government actively trying to make life harder on persons who identify as LGTBQ, you are certainly going to have fewer persons self identify as LGTBQ. There aren't fewer persons who are LGTBQ mind you; they just are being shoved back into the closet by worthless sacks of shit like yourself.

And you have data to prove this?

 

[candycorn]

And you have data to prove this?

“Because I have common sense. OK? And unfortunately, a lot of people don’t...."

 

[Moonglow]

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?​

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply...

unherd.com

15 Oct 2025 ~~ By Eric Kaufmann

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
This trend is especially marked in elite institutions. Andover Phillips Academy in suburban Boston surveys over three-quarters of its students annually. In 2023, 9.2% identified as neither male nor female. This year, that number has crashed to just 3%. A similar story emerges at Brown University: 5% of students identified as non-binary in 2022 and 2023, but by 2025 that share had dropped to 2.6%.

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But the drop in mental health issues encompassed all social groups, including trans and queer youth. The post-pandemic decline in mental illness did not immediately trigger a drop in sexual and gender nonconformity; that shift came a year or two later, suggesting other forces are also at work. And while social media use may be in retreat in the world as a whole, Pew finds no change in the online behavior of young Americans through to 2024. This does not seem to be what’s driving the retreat from alternative gender and sexual identity either.
~Snip~
Whether trans and queer identities will drop to 2010 levels is an open question. But the fact both have declined sharply in just two years is a startling and unanticipated post-progressive development that the education and media establishments will be reluctant to acknowledge.


Commentary:
Those adults which fed and encouraged this crippling dysfunction need prosecuting as all child abusers do! This obsession with sexual perversions and children was sheer Pedophilia crap and my guess is it was adults with weird sexual interests involving children was at the core.
Those who took hormones and got surgery as part of the charade will not be able to undo the damage. Their disfigurement is for life..
They've been telling the young, 'be who you are', well if your a boy, your a boy, a girl a girl.
This is nothing more than a social contagion madness, for those with no willpower, it's called independent thinking.
Some are saying that; "This is nothing more than a social contagion madness”
The answer is NO!
This entire sickness was created and led by Adults, kept going by adults – especially those with the DSA and biased Media.
Now is time to study the who, when, where, how and why of it all – and then Name, Shame, and definitely Prosecute.

Looks like you will need a new weakling to bully.

 

[marvin martian]

Keep believing people you don't like will stop existing if you hate them hard enough.

That's how you got rid of Charlie Kirk, right?

 

[Moonglow]

Trump is ending the grooming of our children. Child mutilation is over. Convincing children that they can be the opposite sex or a puppy if they want to has ended. Child mutilation is over. And keeping parents in the dark is also over.
It does not take a village to raise a child. It requires devoted parents. Schools educate, parents raise.
If the village raises the child, you end up with the village idiot.

Nope, Trump can't end the grooming of kids since it is the polis in the US that grooms them.

 

[Moonglow]

That's how you got rid of Charlie Kirk, right?

Are you claiming that Joe assassinated Charlie Kirk?

 

[fncceo]

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

Because their are less embarrassing ways to make everything about YOU.

 

[Yarddog]

Keep believing people you don't like will stop existing if you hate them hard enough.

its not hate, its concern for innocent kids who have been mislead for a great part. Moron adults who think a kid can identify their sexuality when they are 2 years old could probably also help them transition into a unicorn or a butterfly if thats what they thought they were.

 

[fncceo]

is the polis in the US that grooms them

 

[Moonglow]

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Some day it'll just be a trim off the nose and ears.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?​

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply...

unherd.com

15 Oct 2025 ~~ By Eric Kaufmann

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
This trend is especially marked in elite institutions. Andover Phillips Academy in suburban Boston surveys over three-quarters of its students annually. In 2023, 9.2% identified as neither male nor female. This year, that number has crashed to just 3%. A similar story emerges at Brown University: 5% of students identified as non-binary in 2022 and 2023, but by 2025 that share had dropped to 2.6%.

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But the drop in mental health issues encompassed all social groups, including trans and queer youth. The post-pandemic decline in mental illness did not immediately trigger a drop in sexual and gender nonconformity; that shift came a year or two later, suggesting other forces are also at work. And while social media use may be in retreat in the world as a whole, Pew finds no change in the online behavior of young Americans through to 2024. This does not seem to be what’s driving the retreat from alternative gender and sexual identity either.
~Snip~
Whether trans and queer identities will drop to 2010 levels is an open question. But the fact both have declined sharply in just two years is a startling and unanticipated post-progressive development that the education and media establishments will be reluctant to acknowledge.


Commentary:
Those adults which fed and encouraged this crippling dysfunction need prosecuting as all child abusers do! This obsession with sexual perversions and children was sheer Pedophilia crap and my guess is it was adults with weird sexual interests involving children was at the core.
Those who took hormones and got surgery as part of the charade will not be able to undo the damage. Their disfigurement is for life..
They've been telling the young, 'be who you are', well if your a boy, your a boy, a girl a girl.
This is nothing more than a social contagion madness, for those with no willpower, it's called independent thinking.
Some are saying that; "This is nothing more than a social contagion madness”
The answer is NO!
This entire sickness was created and led by Adults, kept going by adults – especially those with the DSA and biased Media.
Now is time to study the who, when, where, how and why of it all – and then Name, Shame, and definitely Prosecute.

Because they're seeing and hearing the horror stories.And they're wise to their activist teachers

 

[Leo123]

Nope, Trump can't end the grooming of kids since it is the polis in the US that grooms them.

The Marxists, through the Democrat party and their captive broadcast media, influence the 'polis' to be accepting of convincing children to get their body parts changed and to take drugs and hormones to 'transition' to a sex (only they call it 'gender' a meaningless term really) they never could be.

These poor kids have been groomed when they are at vulnerable ages and really need help de-transitioning to normal. This transgender bullshit is without a doubt, the most evil perpetrated on children there ever was.