Posted on 02/27/2023 8:09:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The share of the American population identifying as LGBT has doubled over the past decade as Generation Z is more likely than older Americans to identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or something "other" than heterosexual in new Gallup data.
A new survey released last Wednesday examines Americans' self-identification with the LGBT community based on responses from more than 10,700 adults in the United States collected in 2022. The overall margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage points. The sampling error among the 584 LGBT adult respondents is ±5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
The share of Americans who identify as LGBT reached a record of 7.2% in 2022 after hitting 7.1% in 2021, up from 5.6% in 2020 and 3.5% in 2012, the year Gallup began collecting data on LGBT identification.
Generation Z, defined as the group of adults born between 1997 and 2004, has a much higher share of its population identifying as LGBT than its older counterparts.
Nearly one in five (19.7%) members of Generation Z consider themselves part of the LGBT community, with 13.1% describing themselves as bisexual, 3.4% identifying as gay, 2.2% categorizing themselves as lesbians, 1.9% telling pollsters that they are trans-identified and 1.5% choosing the "other LGBT" category when asked about their sexual orientation.
The share of adults belonging to the LGBT community dropped in descending order by generation, with 11.3% of millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) having a significantly larger LGBT population than Generation X (3.3%), baby boomers (2.7%) and the silent generation (1.7%).
Generation X is categorized as those born between 1965 and 1980, while baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 and the silent generation was born before 1946.
"With many more younger than older adults seeing themselves as something other than heterosexual, the LGBT share of the entire U.S. adult population can be expected to grow in future years," Gallup Senior Editor Jeffrey M. Jones wrote in the report. "However, this growth depends on younger people who enter adulthood in future years continuing to be much more likely to identify as LGBT than their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents."
The findings of the Gallup survey appear consistent with the data collected in "Gen Z Post Election Research" polls conducted by the Walton Family Foundation and Murmuration in conjunction with SocialSphere. That survey, released earlier this month, queried those between the ages of 15 and 17 in addition to adults. Only 75% of Generation Z respondents called themselves "heterosexual or straight," compared to 92% of older adults.
According to the "Gen Z Post Election Research" polls, the most common identity adopted by members of Generation Z who do not consider themselves heterosexual was bisexual (9%), followed by "other queer identity" (4%), "transgender or non-binary" (4%), gay (2%) and lesbian (1%).
Data collected by Gallup in 2022 shows a majority of those who identify as LGBT are bisexual (58.2%), followed by 20.2% who are gay and 13.4% who are lesbian.
Among the respondents to the latest Gallup poll, just 4.2% identify as bisexual, followed by 1.4% who describe themselves as gay and 1% who classify themselves as lesbians. The trans-identified population sits at just 0.6% of the overall total and 8.8% of the LGBT community.
The trans-identified population has become a significant focus in American public policy as states take measures to require student-athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex and ban the genital mutilation of minors with gender dysphoria.
Those identifying as queer, asexual, pansexual or an "other" category within the LGBT movement account for 0.1% of the overall U.S. population and between 1% and 2% of the respondents who identified themselves as LGBT.
Prison chic.
20% of a generation that’s worse than useless, an actual drag on society.
(Maybe you see what I did there.)
Attention seeking: look how different, interesting, and unique I am!
Mental health crisis.
Indoctrination and child abuse by the Left.
The biggest group claiming to be LGBT is bisexual. It’s not uncommon for women to be a bit “bisexual” in their youth, and that includes Boomers. Women are generally more touchy feely than men, trying on clothing, applying makeup, etc together. Experimentation is not the same thing as a gender identity, because most of those youthful bisexuals are not routinely having sex with both sexes. Most end up heterosexual. The only difference between then and now is that claiming bisexuality has even less social stigma then it had decades ago.
“ “All the cool kids are doing it.”
Paying a hell of a price to be fashionable!
With all the benefits and all the favoritism offered to alternate lifestyles people, we could see up to 80% identifying as a member of the LGTBQ+ community.
Not me, though. I’ll be part of the 20% straights.
“even less social stigma”
The problem is not that there is less social stigma—it is that are positive incentives for claiming to be a lesbian or bisexual.
It helps with college admissions.
It helps with obtaining jobs, particularly in certain sectors.
It help with political careers in big cities.
This is about incentives—people will take advantage of the “system” any way that can.
Correction: delusions and insanity increased 20%.
That’s because Gen Z was raised ignorant. Just look at the education system the past few years and the teachers that are hired. Yikes!
Other surveys show Gen Z is having much less sex than prior generations. They may claim to be LGBT, but does that involve actually engaging in LGBT sex? Apparently not nearly as much as one would expect. It’s just a trendy thing to claim.
As far as morality goes, Boomers and Millennials have no room to brag as many were fornicating with abandon in their youth. They don’t hold the moral high ground.
You’re right. It helps to be part of a victim group. Subsidize or incentivize an activity, and you’ll get more of it. I read somewhere that American Indian populations are growing faster than birth statistics indicate. Why? Because other races are claiming to be Indian to access benefits for minorities.
It the “cool” thing to do. Gross.
That’s pandering.. fortunately I did away with cable and TV completely years ago so I don’t have to see it!! Anything I watch I stream from 2 or 3 places via PC to the flat screen!!
Anything that has gay leading roles... Or the infamous black guy white girl leading roles gets immediately turned off.
I’m getting that way too. I totally believe that blacks deserve shows. But they have all but taking over.
most young men are try sexuals... if it feels good they’ll try it.
It’s like the vax…. Special people get special favors. Nothing equal in that.
We sane people just have to be here to pick up the pieces. If they don’t destroy us first… they are saying that daily and loudly.
These people were lied to by everyone and it will destroy them inside and out
Vax lies, gender lies, homosexual lies. Same father of lies.
onlt because people are still tuning in. once they stop, and the networks go broke, then things may change. too many passive whites in the world.
Admit you are normal and you’ll be tagged as a hater.
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