Posted on 10/14/2025 4:23:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
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%.
More surveys ask about sexual orientation than gender identity. And while there is a broader spread of data points, the basic pattern looks similar: rising non-conformity from 2010 until 2023, with a near 10-point return to the norm in the ensuing two years in most datasets.
Interestingly, when the trans and queer trends were at their peak, freshmen were more likely to be non-conforming in their gender and sexuality than seniors. Now that BTQ (bisexual, trans, queer or questioning) identification is...
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Good. Now identify and expose so-called teachers who bring porn into the classroom.
I’m not going to spike the ball on the five yard line.
It was a copycat fad. Just like clothing styles, music eras and figures of speech (have you heard Rad, Excellent, Righteous or Far Out lately?), kids jumped into being othersexual because it was what everyone was doing.
And Gen Z young men have pivoted back to embrace of traditional masculinity. Soon the women that age will fall into behaviors attendant to that.
Because you see old people supporting trans-rights and thus it’s not cool.
Those who took hormones and got surgery as part of the charade will not be able to undo the damage.
“People follow the strong horse.”
—Osama
Less to play with.
They aren't up for the required number of Assassinations.
It’s a shift of zeitgeist. Why did all the hippies cut off their hair, put on suits and ties, and report to their job at the office in 1980? Same deal. Trans is out, macho is in.
So they could become the Deep State.
I don’t think it was coincidental that this insanity coincided with COVID-19.
Because it’s so 2023.
This.
I believe that people like Charlie Kirk have exposed it as the lie that it is. If you think you’re the wrong sex, you need a psychiatrist and/or a psychologist who will help you find out why you are having these feelings, not a surgeon who will begin giving you hormones and surgery.
Now if we can just get teen boys to pull up their pants.
Because Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
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