Posted on 10/15/2025 10:56:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a clear sign that the radical gender ideology push is losing steam, new data reveals a shocking drop in the number of American college students identifying as transgender or non-binary, just two years after the trend peaked under the Biden-Harris administration’s influence. According to a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), analyzed by the Centre for Heterodox Social Science, the percentage of U.S. undergraduates claiming identities other than male or female has declined from 6.8 percent in 2023 to just 3.6 percent in 2025, representing a nearly 50 percent decrease.
The report states:
The scale of the decline in the student data is considerable, even accounting for variability in the data. The Andover prep school sample shows a drop from over 9 percent non-binary in 2023 to 3 percent in 2025. In the much larger FIRE sample, the decline during the same period is from 6.8 to 3.6 percent of the total, a near halving of the non-binary share across a sample of 55,000-69,000 students per annum.
The Brown University student survey data, whose 2025 survey captured nearly half the target population, shows a drop from around 5 percent in 2022-23 to 2.6 percent in 2025, also a halving of the non-binary share. In these cases we see a ‘rise and fall’ pattern of numbers returning to pre-surge baselines.
This nosedive comes after years of aggressive promotion of gender fluidity in schools, media, and social platforms, which many conservatives have long labeled as social contagion rather than genuine identity.
The report suggests the decline could be linked to improving mental health among students, with depression rates falling from 44 percent in 2022 to 38 percent in 2024, per a survey cited in The Economist.
A 2023 study highlighted how over half of teen girls identifying as trans had friends doing the same, pointing to peer pressure and trends as key drivers, factors that appear to be reversing now.
Elite institutions are seeing even steeper drops.
At Brown University, the percentage of students identifying as non-binary decreased from 5 percent in 2022-2023 to 2.6 percent in 2025.
Similarly, Phillips Academy Andover reported a decline from 7.4 percent in 2023 to 3 percent in 2025.
On X, users are celebrating the fade of what many call a dangerous “fad.”
Moms for Liberty declared, “It’s no longer ‘trendy’ to be ‘trans.'”
Joblessness had to have been part of the turnaround. If it true. And it probably is. Certainly will be
In the early 80’s it was trendy for girls in college to experiment with lesbianism. Not to get too graphic, but I know of a guy who talked his girlfriend into a threesome and the two girls dumped the guy and went off into the sunset together. Both he and she are still Facebook friends of mine. He got married had kids and now has grandkids. She never got married, works at a food bank, and posts pictures of her cats.
That’s the problem with being a LUG, even if you outgrow the phase, what guy is going to want to marry such a woman?
I still say , Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, extreme influencers on young minds filled with mush. The focus has been solely on their quite heterosexual enchanted romance, and the time frame is congruent. Also the male pigs barging into female sports has been a very pronounced aversive influence for most i’m sure Plus the shooters.
Good.
People are finally coming to their senses and rejecting the destructive democrat narrative.
Coming to their senses?
Hardly. Hopefully they did enough damage so they cannot procreate
I meant the ones who had not yet transitioned were coming to their senses.
My brother’s step daughter was transing, had the surgery, did the hormones. She was also her mother’s daughter, which is no compliment. My late s-i-l was a real piece of work.
Then she met some guy who just adores her and she got married. I cannot fathom what would be wrong with a guy who’d fall for a very obese, mutilated, entitled female.
Unreal that some guy would be OK with that.
A kabar and a bottle of cheap vodka ...
And lots of towels............... preferably clean ones............
I don’t think they sell that at WalMart..................
$37 for one roll!.....................
It ain’t cheap. It’s just really good. I’ve used it twice. Once on another, once on myself ... but not for the purpose we’re currently discussing.
I suppose hemophiliacs would keep it in huge supply!..........
I suppose hemophiliacs would keep it in huge supply!..........
could be ... I don’t know any, so can’t ask.
Needs too be killed with fire!
It sounds as if he corrupted her and prevented her from eventually having a happy married life and family of her own.
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