After increasing over the last decade and a half, a study from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science found that, starting in 2023, the percentage of American college students who identify as transgender or queer has fallen almost in half, from almost 7 percent to less than four percent.
Peter Labarbera of the Center for Morality and AmericansForTruth.com says by 2023 the rise in trans identification was because of what he calls a social contagion. It was cool to say you’re trans. But then reality set in.
“The awful reality of young people, very young people who, whose bodies were destroyed in the pursuit of this fantasy of becoming the opposite sex,” Labarbera said.
He says that sometime around 2023 the movement crossed some invisible line, and the public started refusing to play along.
“It's just a road too far for most Americans. And so there was such a tremendous pushback against the trans agenda.”
Labarbera says there was a larger shift away from a lot of radical social experiments, like cancel culture, the “MeToo movement,” the overturning of Roe v Wade and more.
“I think a big part of it is Donald Trump winning again and the fact that he actually ran against the transgender agenda.”
“The Charlie Kirk phenomenon of being out on campus debating the trans issue” also played a big role in the move back to reality,” Labarbera said.
And he expects the trend to continue on its downward trajectory as more and more young people who were forced or conned into transitioning realize their lives are ruined forever.
“We already have huge lawsuits in the works against the … call it the transgender medical industry or medical industrial complex. And I think there will be more and more of this. We are actually seeing destroyed bodies.”
