Posted on 10/08/2026 11:39:07 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
Twenge has been researching generational differences for decades. As part of that work, she regularly analyzes data from the CDC’s biennial Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.
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Being trans was just the latest Pet Rock.
Perversion isn’t as cool as it used to be.
Its amazing what happens when normies get back into office and dont reward attention seeking abnormal behavior with policy and prizes.
Its no longer cool.
It’s such a mystery, we are all baffled, what could it be.........what c o u l d it be?
How about this one, now that the tide has turned and it is uncool, maybe they are all too embarrassed to admit they are lesbians and homosexuals and have decided to conceal it by appearing normal for the rest of their lives.
He tried to be gay, but it didn’t pay
So he bought a motorbike instead
He failed at funk, so he became a punk
‘Cause he thought he’d make a little more bread
-The Kinks (Prince Of The Punks)
Next fad they will identify as cats...............
“Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID,” Terry Schilling, the head of the American Principles Project, wrote on X.
Boys are finding out they don’t like poop.
It’s unclear what is causing people to be normal.
Lesbo is the pet rock. Trans is the psychotic delusion.
Perhaps they figured Being an
Angry shaved headed Freak
Spouting “Love is Love!”
Is a Terrible Life to Live.
Mental illness increased in 2021 and 2022 but declined by 2023, which mirrors the beginning of the reduction in the surveyed young people identifying as LGBT. LGBT identification reached its highest in 2022.
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“And when we are now talking about LGBTQ, particularly BTQ,” he said, “isn’t it interesting that even some people on the left say at least a part of this, a major function of this, one big driver of this, is fashion.
No longer promoted by the White House maybe.
Another benefit of getting rid of USAID.
Genes apparently just “flip” back, it seems…
Maybe because they never were. It is just not cool, it is “ICK” now.
Trump is ultimately responsible for this.
Even though has not spoken on this topic directly.
We live in a semi-socialist country, with a huge, bloated and centralized government.
Leftists and marxists use everything from DOJ lawfare to NGO funding to controlled-media campaigns to executive orders to the vast bloated Fed.gov apparatus to effect their social-engineering
Trump has both attacked this Fed.gov funding and propaganda network, AND he has given conservatives courage to stand up and tell the truth.
Its amazing the thousands of unimaginable 2nd and 3rd order effects a change in leadership can have.
Of course it isn’t. Remember when being “Goth” was in vogue?
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