The LGBTQ Hype Is Over: College Students Are Going Straight Again

Transgender and queer identities among young Americans, especially at elite institutions, have plummeted since their 2023 peak, according to a Centre for Heterodox Social Science report.

Professor Eric Kaufmann, director and University of Buckingham politics scholar, analyzed surveys like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s 2025 poll of 68,510 students.

Only 3.6 percent identified as non-binary in 2025, down from 6.8 percent in 2023 and 5.2 percent in 2024 — a near-halving in two years.

"The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent," Kaufmann wrote.

Elite settings showed sharper declines.

Phillips Academy Andover’s non-binary share dropped from 9.2 percent in 2023 to 3 percent in 2025.

Brown University’s fell from 5 percent in 2022-23 to 2.6 percent in 2025.

"The scale of the decline in the student data is considerable, even accounting for variability in the data," Kaufmann noted.

Non-heterosexual identification also fell nearly 10 points since 2023, driven by drops in queer, pansexual, asexual, and bisexual categories.

FIRE data showed heterosexuality rebounding from 68 percent in 2023 to 77 percent in 2025.

"The share of students identifying as not heterosexual fell by around 10 points in the same period," Kaufmann stated.

Freshmen in 2025 were less likely to identify as bisexual, trans, queer, or questioning (BTQ) than seniors, reversing earlier trends.

"Today’s freshmen are less BTQ+ than seniors, suggesting that decline will continue," he wrote.

Kaufmann explored causes but found no link to politics, religion, or social media.

"The decline in BTQ+ 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," he said.

Improved mental health partially explains the shift.

"There is evidence that improved mental health has reduced BTQ+ identification,” Kaufmann noted, citing CDC data showing sadness among LGBT high schoolers dropping from 76 to 65 percent between 2021 and 2023.

Yet, the lag between mental health improvements and identity shifts suggests other factors.

"Improved youth mental health cannot adequately explain declining trans, queer and bisexual share,” he concluded.

Statistical analysis confirmed that year effects persisted even when controlling for ideology, religion, and mental health.

"Year of survey predicts a rise or fall in BTQ+ identity even after controlling for other important factors,” Kaufmann wrote.

He likened the trend to a fading fad, noting, "Trans, queer and bisexual identities are in rapid decline among young educated Americans."

The transgender-queer wave pushed by Hollywood’s elites, music industry puppets, United Nations globalists, Democrat Party operatives, and corporate overlords is collapsing.

Their relentless propaganda to mutilate our bodies and sterilize our youth is failing.

Human nature — rooted in biology, resilience and facts — stands stronger than their brainwashing schemes. The tide is turning, and their grip is slipping.