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.'”
It was a fad, a cult movement, but the idiots who bought into it, will buy into the next craze that comes along.
Collective and manipulated mental illness.
Feel sorry for the children and young adults who did permanent damage to their bodies over this madness.
Hope those in the medical field are sued into oblivion.
Meanwhile the rats remain all in.
And all it took was a single child, looking and pointing saying in a small voice
“YOU ARE A BUNCH OF SELF RETARDED MENTALLY DEFICIENT MORONS, GET YOU HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES....”
In a nice way....
it could happen............
Imagine you jumped on the trans bandwagon, got your weiner cut off, only to find out this was a fad you fell for!
What made them change their mind?
Are they grateful they did not mutilate their genitals?
Hopefully they will never procreate.
Some years ago there LUGs on campus-not many but more than a few. Lesbians Until Graduation!
Emasculate yourself, TikTok Challenge..............
I have a good feeling that many kids currently in Junior High and High School are going to be much more conservative, in fact, I would call them “Generation Trump”.
“Transgender” and “non-binary” neither one was a real thing. Sort of on the order of necromancy and vampirism, rooted in a fantasy and subject to wildly imaginative projections.
Andover/Brown
Centre for Heterodox Social Science
heterodox= opposite normal
If Kamela had won, those numbers would be going up, funded by taxpayer money if necessary.
Like bell bottom pants, not cool anymore.
Think of the incredible human wreckage this Godless adventure caused.
Like bell bottom pants, not cool anymore.
The pendulum swings, eventually they will be back in style.
There is tattoo removal but wiener reinsertion?
I pray you're right. I'm on the tail end of my life, and would hope that this country is left in the hands of responsible, God-loving, Conservative individuals.
And then get ready for the next one, the transhuman movement is on deck,
In one of Frank Zappa’s songs, he spoke of a profession he called “trendmonger.”
In the same song, he painted a mental picture of a bunch of teenagers on the beach, wearing very little, dancing madly around a giant pile of transistor radios, tuned to different stations, each set to maximum volume.
I think that was at least fifty years ago.
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