US EditionTrans identification among young Americans drops sharply since 2023: report
A report by Eric Kaufmann finds transgender and non-binary identification among U.S. college students halved since 2023, notably in elite institutions, partly linked to improved mental health.
- Fewer young Americans are identifying as transgender or queer, while more are identifying as heterosexual, according to a new study.
- The study reveals a decline of 3 to 6 percent in students identifying as non-binary in 2025 compared to 2023.
- Researchers noted that political ideology, culture war attitudes, and religious identification had little effect on gender and sexual identities from 2023 to 2025.
- The report, titled 'The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity Among Young Americans', indicates a sharp drop in trans and queer identification among Generation Z since 2023.
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The Collapse of Trans Identification
After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum—in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that around a quarter of high school students identified as LGBTQ—the trend may have finally peaked. Last month, Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, published a report through the Centre for Heterodox Social Science titled “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity am…
The Blessed Madonna blasts Róisín Murphy's trans youth post: 'Go f**k yourself'
DJ and music producer The Blessed Madonna has ripped into Irish musician Róisín Murphy for a post about the purported decline in young people identifying as transgender. Posting on X, formerly Twitter on Tuesday (21 October), disco singer and former Moloko member Róisín Murphy shared a graph indicating that the number of 18 to 22-year-olds identifying as transgender or non-binary dropped steeply between 2022 and 2024. “It was never real,” she wr…
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Transgender Identity Really Has Fallen Among Young People
(Photo via Getty Images.)A firestorm erupted last week when the British professor and commentator Eric Kaufmann made a bold claim: Identifying as transgender is “in free fall among the young.”But as journalist Benjamin Ryan rightly pointed out, the surveys Kaufmann referenced didn’t measure identifying as transgender. Instead, they measured identifying as nonbinary (note the chart says “not identifying as male or female,” which is not the same a…
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