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The number of young people identifying as non binary has gone into sudden freefall, which a Canadian academic has compared to the “fading of a fashion or trend.”
This is according to a new analysis published by the Canadian academic Eric Kaufmann, who concluded in a recent report that “trans, queer and bisexual identities are in rapid decline among young educated Americans.”
Kaufmann, a politics professor who directs the U.K.-based Centre for Heterodox Social Science, found that the number of students “not identifying as male or female” hit its peak right around 2023, and recent numbers show that the share has almost halved in just two years.
The findings are all based on U.S. data. Specifically, several surveys of American undergraduates that included questions about their