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...
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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.
Thee most used tactic when you have lost your arse in a debate. Well you do not believe in God so you can make whatever up it is you want to believe.
