The Gender Totalitarians Are Still with Us

 American Greatness  

"The trans craze has spread through social contagion for some time now, and we are still feeling its harmful effects. It will fade eventually, but who knows what the next all-encompassing fad will be? I shudder to think."

. . . "An analysis of campus surveys by Eric Kaufmann from the Center for Heterodox Social Science found that the number of college students identifying as transgender decreased by 50% between 2023 and 2025. On a similar note, psychologist Jean Twenge’s analysis of the annual Cooperative Election Study, conducted by YouGov, found that transgender identification among 18- to 22-year-olds dropped by nearly 50% between 2022 and 2024. She concludes that “it looks like the peak of trans identification is in the past.”

"However, a recently released report from the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine presents a different picture. Using data from the larger National College Health Assessment, the report reveals that transgender and “nonbinary” identification among U.S. college students is at an all-time high—ranging from 4.7% to 6.7%—although it may be leveling off.

"Also, the immensely profitable transgender movement is set to expand, according to Market Research Future. The business consultancy asserts that the “Gender Dysphoria Market Industry” is quite healthy and expected to grow from $13.93 billion in 2025 to $63.53 billion by 2032.

"The reality, as noted by UCLA’s Williams Institute, an LGBTQ advocacy group, is that 99.4% of the population lacks the physical traits that cause someone to become transgender. The 0.6% of the adult population who experience gender dysphoria—a condition that causes significant distress—certainly deserve empathy and respect.

"Additionally, Brown University physician and researcher Lisa Littman published a study in 2018 indicating that “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” in young people might be influenced by social and peer contagion. She emphasizes that nearly 70% of teenagers were part of a peer group where at least one friend identified as transgender.

"Nevertheless, the trans phenomenon persists, and our schools are at the forefront of the fad.

"The Los Angeles Unified School District may be the nation’s leader of the movement. District policy allows children to socially transition their genders at school without informing their parents. They can also use school facilities such as locker rooms and restrooms, and participate in sports that align with their gender identity." . . .