{"id":5643,"date":"2025-10-15T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:42:45","slug":"trans-identity-plummets-among-young-americans-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/trans-identity-plummets-among-young-americans-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans identity plummets among young Americans \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"

The share of 18-24 year olds identifying as transgender has halved since 2023, new data shows<\/strong><\/p>\n

The share of young Americans identifying as transgender has fallen sharply in recent years, after more than a decade of rapid growth, a new study has shown.<\/p>\n

The percentage of university students ages 18-24 “not identifying as male or female”<\/em> peaked in 2023 and has since dropped by about half, according to data from major US surveys of high school and university students analyzed by politics professor Eric Kaufmann.<\/p>\n

In a report released this month, Kaufmann – who teaches at the University of Buckingham and directs its Centre for Heterodox Social Science – said the share of students identifying as transgender reached nearly 7% in 2023 but fell to below 4% this year.<\/p>\n

The study also found a broader shift in sexual identity, with the share of students identifying as non-heterosexual dropping by about ten percentage points over the same period. The decline was driven mainly by fewer young people describing themselves as queer, pansexual, or other.<\/p>\n

\n

1\/ NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young<\/p>\n

(h\/t @FIRE<\/a> data in particular) pic.twitter.com\/i0Z1BNcWG8<\/a><\/p>\n

— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) October 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the same time, the proportion of heterosexual students rose to 77% in 2025 after hitting a low of 68% two years earlier.<\/p>\n

Kaufmann noted that younger students were less likely to identify as transgender or queer than those in higher years, something he called “a sign that fashions are changing.”<\/em>
<\/em><\/p>\n

“The decline in BTQ+ [bisexual, transgender, and queer, plus other related identities] identification does not appear to be connected to lower social media use, religious revival, a shift to the political right or lower support for woke ideology,”<\/em> Kaufmann wrote.<\/p>\n

\n
\n READ MORE: <\/span>US Olympic Committee bans transgender athletes from women\u2019s sports
\n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n

The report linked part of the decline to improved mental health among students after the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Kaufmann said the trend represents a “momentous and unanticipated post-progressive cultural shift”<\/em> among young Americans, following years of rapid expansion in gender and sexual diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The share of 18-24 year olds identifying as transgender has halved since 2023, new data shows The share of young Americans identifying as transgender has fallen sharply in recent years, after more than a decade of rapid growth, a new study has shown. The percentage of university students ages 18-24…<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}