"... according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack '
Generation Tech.' In 2021,
30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year,
17 percent did.... The rate of boys who identify as gay or bisexual has remained
roughly the same over the past decade. But a few years ago, after the pandemic shutdowns, the CDC data showed big upticks in the percentage of high school girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Within a few years, those rates began to drop, but only by a few percentage points. Though the overall numbers have continued to decline, older teenagers’ sexual orientation has held relatively stable...."
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"Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’/Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear" (WaPo)
Top-rated comment: "Oh for heavens sake - it was a teenage fad and now they have moved on to something else. Happens all the time. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out."
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"... it was a teenage fad and now they have moved on to something else. Happens all the time. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out."
Social contagion works both ways. And biology can not be denied... by rational people.
And double this for trans.
Careful now; Abigail Schrier's calling it a "social contagion" (aka, fad) earned her massive blowback from the wokesters who are in charge of what we can all say.
Something about getting more of whatever is incentivized.
In this case, claiming queer statue gets the claimant attention.
Many/most teenagers crave attention.
It's not rocket surgery.
FASHION!
Just wait until Islam takes over with help from the leftist "liberals", we will be going back in time and no one will identify as gay or bisexual for fear of being tossed off a roof. Yay Leftism!!
contagions burn out
Repression to the mean
"but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear"
They shouldn't be. The kids and researchers were all buysexual. Someone paid them good USAID money for their homosexuality, and now it's all gone!
Bill Maher's "New Rule: Along for the Pride" said this was fad 4 years ago. You should watch at least the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMBzfUj5zsg
Maybe they are all Trans now.
"But a few years ago, after the pandemic shutdowns, the CDC data showed big upticks"
A period during which the girls had likely spent a lot more of their time on social media than usual because they weren't in school.
Boys more suspicious less susceptible to the influencer maker machinery behind the popular vlogs.
OK, does Trump get credit ... or blame? Somehow he's in the middle of this, right?
OK, you’ve got to give Howard credit where credit is due:
“Repression to the mean…”
Witty and to the point. No wise ass shit. No “you people.” It’s a first.
>"Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’ - WaPo headline
"The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls...In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual." - Jean Twenge, psych prof at San Diego State
"The rate of boys who identify as gay or bisexual has remained roughly the same over the past decade."<
OK, let's play "Which of those three doesn't belong with the others?"
"Teens" indeed!
This is like the press identifying the gangs of young Black rioters as "youths." They sure hate to step on the toes of their sacred cows, don't they.
The real story here of course is that, yes, women are crazy - especially when they're teenagers.
…Isn’t it because G and L move on to a different letter? Did the survey not have the leftie IQ to recognize how important that is? Fascists…
…I mean plain old G and L- that’s for squares, man. Like, all four corners…
Why is CDC analyzing this? Ir seems far removed from disease control. Bring back DOGE.
Since I'm told you are born that way, what happened in the 2010s to cause this, or what happened just before that to create the surge in non-straight babies. Was it Y2K?
Why is the government counting this shit?
If you liked "Republicans Pounce" as a device to downplay news that undermines the progressive movement, you'll love "Conservatives Trumpet."
From the comments at WaPo: "I had a friend with two daughters attending Montgomery County public schools in the early 2000’s. In third grade they were taught about sexual orientation. The children didn’t understand what the lesbian orientation meant. The teacher explained “If you’re a girl, and like girls more than you like boys, then you’re a lesbian.” Obviously, most 8, 9 year olds prefer their own gender for friendships. Soon the entire friend group of half a dozen girls all started claiming they were lesbians. At that young age, children have no idea what sexual attraction is. Teaching elementary school children gender philosophy can create confusion that isn’t based on their own experiences or true sexual identities."
Perhaps the obvious leftwing effort to TRANS and Speech Crime/Pronoun/ They-them everyone has turned off many ?
The left's idea of proper sexual education is not proper at all.
It is by definition - predatory and radically age inappropriate. On purpose.
Of course the left's built in guilt and shame response:
"You're a homophobe and a racist"
There's a simple reason why the percentage of 9th-grade girls claiming to be Lesbian or bisexual peaked in 2021: schools were closed for Covid, so everything was on-line. That means they could be cool without having to worry about anyone asking them to prove their Lesbianism or bisexuality by actually having sex with another girl. It was all virtual, and imaginary. No need to put your body where your mouth is, as it were. Or would that be where your typing finger is? (Sorry if either of those sounds obscene.)
The corrupt ACLU (D) - advocates to force public schools to stock disgusting sex books on the public school library shelves. These books do not merely promote homosexuality. They include graphic depictions of incest as sexual pleasure. Parent/child sex acts.
The ACLU (D) is dead to me.
THE corrupt LEFTWING ACLU (D) also groom their petitioners to go out and get signatures to DEFUND THE POLICE AND ICE.
Obviously more gay and bisexual young people felt free to come out because Biden was President, but then Trump and his MAGA bullies came back and re-repressed them.
It's the only logical explanation.
"But a few years ago, after the pandemic shutdowns, the CDC data showed big upticks"
Maybe this belongs with the later post, but since when did progressive media decide "increases" verboten verbiage?
Along with "build out" instead of "finish" and any discussion of the Green Leap Forward and Green Energy (sic)?
They have moved on to loving Hamas and hating Israel.
Not an improvement
They're socially distancing from trans identities.
They're transitioning back to cis, which is cool, and functional.
So much for young teenagers. Wha't up with old teenagers?
What's the big mystery? The Biden Administration had a massive campaign to not just support but also proselytize acceptance and furtherance of the homosexual lifestyle. And it was actively pursued by the teachers' unions. It was full-on indoctrination. I remember it well because of numerous conversations with our grandchildren at that time about their experiences in school. It was clear that the values and lifestyles of our extended family and community were under assault, so we fought it both privately and in forums.
The Trump Administration clearly stopped the majority of the official nonsense, and some sense of normality has been re-established. Our grandkids have been educated about such attempts and methods, and now are mature about how to personally evaluate and handle such situations. But it saddens us to even think about the next wave of all-out indoctrination that may be launched with some future general election results.
Just a fad? What casual way to dismiss a social contagion that destroyed families and individuals.
Definitely not a pattern...1) damaging fad sweeps nation 2) kids often deeply harmed 3) those that say "stop" early in the fad are castigated / silenced 4) time passes and fad fades 5) the perps and the press move on to the next fad. No reflection, no accountability, no apologies. (see also: covid)
So, progress before, progress now. Is it a liberal condition and a matter of Pro-Choice with convenience, clause?
@techsan, As is so often the case, the "won't someone think of the children!" people were - in fact - thinking of the children the whole time.
You are not confused you are cis . You are homo and trans.
Socialists don't approve of the same-sex lifestyle, perhaps. Dreaming of Levine. Abort!
"it was a teenage fad" It included the meta-fad of not allowing the fad to be called a fad. Still cases of that around.
Trans is a drag show. The children just want to have a gay old time. And no albinophobia, which is a queer African tradition.
"..The Biden Administration had a massive campaign to not just support but also proselytize acceptance and furtherance.."
oh come on! it's NOT like the Biden admin had a man in a skirt pretending to be a chief medical officer! Or incouraged army men to wear skirts! or had some women's suitcase stealing freakazoid in charge of nuclear disposal..
oh wait.. never mind
The vaccines cured gayness?
Ann Althouse said...
"..The teacher explained “If you’re a girl, and like girls more than you like boys, then you’re a lesbian.."
when they put it that way, it's surprizing that ANY prepube girls would say that they wanted stinky smelly boyz ANYWHERE near them
"The vaccines cured gayness?"
LOL!
The next big conspiracy theory is born.
Fauci was in charge of curing AIDS back in the day. Coincidence?
Fauci et al allowed gang penetrations to progress in the San Fran trans clubs where HIV proliferated with liberal ease. A prelude to drug testing, perhaps, and burden relief.
It's not just girls, it's heavily white girls that said they were bi, gay or the latest magical word, "queer." Why? They're being saturated with the nonsense philosophy of: you are either a member of the oppressor class or the oppressed. As white girls, they are in the bad group. However, if they simply state that they are bi, gay, or queer, they are instantly transported to the oppressed class. No they can don the mantle of an oppressed victim, and demand special considerations and sympathies. They don't have to actually change a single aspect of behavior, a simple assertion and they are in.
…yah, the child daycare scandal in the 90s and oughts gave some people the road map on how to brainwash children for fun and profit…
Trans or cis. Cis or trans. Irreconcilable gender differences among the queerly beloved.
Welcome to your orientation
There's no turning back
Even if you doubt
We will remind you
To act upon faddish behaviour
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Now every white girl wants to screw the world
Just as Covid passed with Fauci, the transdemic passed with Levine.
The infatuation with the back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP at the intersection of racism and sexism passed with the rejection of Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies), Equivocation, and Inanitiies.
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