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From men competing in women's sports to rows over pronouns, America has spent the past decade consumed by transgender debates. But the frenzy may finally be fading. A new analysis reveals that the number of young people identifying as transgender or nonbinary has plunged in recent years. The findings suggest the rate among 18- to 22-year-olds has almost halved - from about 6 percent at its peak in 2022 to around 3 percent in 2024. The number of young adults identifying as nonbinary saw a similar drop in just one year from 2023 to 2024, going from roughly 5 percent...

Have we lost ye, Michele Bachmann? The answer would seem to be yes, as the sharp-tongued, googly-eyed Minnesota Congresswoman suspended her presidential campaign after receiving only five per cent of the Iowa Caucus vote in the state where she was born. To put that in perspective, Michele Bachmann only got 6,000 more votes in Iowa than Johann Sebastian Bach. It was the culmination of a stunning turn of events over the past few months, after her candidacy surged when she won the Iowa straw poll in August. Soon afterwards, however, her poll numbers went south faster than General William Tecumseh...