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Transgenderism Declining Among College Students: Study
The New American ^ | October 18, 2025 | Michael Tennant

Posted on 10/18/2025 11:31:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A new study suggests the United States may have passed peak transgenderism, as the percentage of college students identifying as “transgender” or “nonbinary” has fallen significantly over the past three years.

Nonbinary Revision

“Trans, queer and bisexual identities are in rapid decline among young educated Americans,” declared the October 10 study from the University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Social Science.

Authored by Canadian professor of politics Eric Kaufmann, the report analyzed the trends across several annual surveys of college students’ gender and sexual identities. Among the entities conducting the polls were the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which surveys undergraduate students at leading research universities; the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), which surveys freshmen at various higher-education institutions; and Andover Phillips Academy and Brown University, elite schools that poll their student bodies annually.

Kaufmann found that the number of students identifying as transgender or nonbinary — he told CBN News the identities “are so similar that differentiating between the two is like ‘splitting hairs’” — started rising in 2010.

However, he wrote, “the share of young people not identifying as male or female (typically ticking the non-binary or questioning options) has declined substantially since its 2022-23 peak.” The FIRE surveys indicate that the number of nonbinary students has fallen by almost half, from 6.8 percent in 2023 to 3.6 percent in 2025. Brown University’s results were similar, while Andover reported an even more-precipitous drop. Curiously, the HERI data “exhibit stability throughout the period.”

Kaufmann surmised, therefore, that “the ‘rise and fall’ pattern is more of an elite phenomenon.” In other words, the students most exercised over their own “privilege” are also the ones who, thanks to said privilege, have the luxury of experimenting with different identities.

Straight Talk

Another Kaufmann finding:

Trends in sexual orientation are more complex,...


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: transgender

1 posted on 10/18/2025 11:31:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mommy Dress Up is over!


2 posted on 10/18/2025 11:33:38 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

What is obvious is this: if this BS was real it would not rise and fall like a freekin fad. The result has been countless teenage girls have had to endure creeps in their private spaces and mutilated children.


3 posted on 10/18/2025 11:38:30 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Zathras

“Mommy Dress Up is over” might be finished (thank God) but children sexually mutilated by the modern version of Joseph Mengele at Auschwitz will never be able to totally undo the damage done to them.


4 posted on 10/18/2025 11:42:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Sicko 'doctors' that sexually mutilate children are worse thann Epstein <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Weird sexual fetishes in college have been a thing for a long time. 10 or 20 years ago, it was “LUGs” — “Lesbians Until Graduation.” Especially at “elite” women’s colleges.


5 posted on 10/18/2025 12:00:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any of our FRiends with lawyer children should advise them to study trannyism. I imagine they will make out like bandits in the coming years.


6 posted on 10/18/2025 12:13:48 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think part of the draw to identifying as trans was to get the woke off your back.

If you're white you're automatically bad for being white, privileged, racist, blah blah blah.

If you say you're trans all that badness goes away and you're now magically a part of the special group that get accolades and praise -- you're so brave, empowered, anti the system, etc.

7 posted on 10/18/2025 12:28:33 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Zathras

Hell of a price to pay to be fashionable. Lol!!!


8 posted on 10/18/2025 12:32:44 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The bloom is off the pose.


9 posted on 10/18/2025 1:54:31 PM PDT by katana
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“When will my pee pee grow back?”


10 posted on 10/18/2025 2:58:05 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Many that were straight said they were transgender due to it being politically correct and cool. They were always straight. With the accent of much transgendered violence and murder and mass murder it is no longer cool. They did not change but what was cool before is no longer cool. They were straight from the beginning and just wanted to act cool.

A true transgendered is not a political statement but a mental problem.


11 posted on 10/18/2025 3:10:17 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Zathras
"Mommy Dress Up is over!"

Back to hula-hoops and cap guns.
12 posted on 10/18/2025 5:23:06 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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