Has the gender madness fever finally broken among America’s youth?
Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, compiled a report for the Centre for Heterodox Social Science titled “CHSS Report No. 5, The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans.”
The report draws on data from several sources, including annual campus surveys done by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a Higher Education Research Institute survey of incoming college freshmen, as well as various other studies.
Kaufmann found that 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 across 3 of 5 data sources.”
Some of the studies show a drop from 9% to 3% while others have the figure dropping from 6.8% to 3.6%.
The study shows what many of us have said for years: The idea that there is no gender, or that gender isn’t binary, was mostly a fad pushed by radical activists.
Many claimed that the increase of trans and non-binary youth showed there were a number of children who were gender-confused, and it was only old bigotry that was silencing them.
More likely, virtue-signaling teens saw they could simply change their pronouns, including to newly invented ones, from day to day, to show how progressive they were.
It gave kids cachet, and power, without needing to do too much or commit to any bit.
Seeing a decrease in non-binary youth means that kids aren’t as interested in participating in even the low-effort gender-bending category.
Similarly, Kaufmann shows a decrease in the “share of students identifying as not heterosexual” with a drop of about 10 points.
This decline came from the “queer or other sexual categories (i.e. pansexual, asexual) and, to a lesser extent, bisexuality.”
