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Transgender Identity Numbers in Free Fall
Among American Students: Study

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/15/2025 11:46:53 AM

A new survey of published polling data by Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and an adjunct fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, shows a nearly 50% drop in the number of college students who identify as transgender. Kaufmann believes the data shows the gender identity trend is going "out of fashion." The surveys include polls from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) poll, which samples more than 50,000 students each year, and the Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) annual freshman survey.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 10/15/2025 12:02:45 PM (No. 2017108)
Less pretending when it gets a push back and no free benefits.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rondino 10/15/2025 12:03:39 PM (No. 2017110)
“Skulls full of mush” Maha Rushie
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 10/15/2025 12:09:51 PM (No. 2017118)
Moran is not overly impressed with the surey, but expresses belief that "kids will be OK". Some basic education in human biology could help. Teach them the impossibility of changing one's biological sex. There are two sexes. They are not interchangeable.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RobertJ984 10/15/2025 12:11:37 PM (No. 2017121)
What about the poor bastards that already had their crank cut off?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 10/15/2025 12:25:22 PM (No. 2017138)
Good. Suicide rate is higher than average in the gay community. It is even higher in the trans community. I have never heard this debunked anywhere. This lifestyle is clearly not for everyone. This is not the kind of lifestyle that should be introduced to children who are still trying to figure out how life works in general.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/15/2025 12:26:43 PM (No. 2017139)
Looks like the Fake Freaks are running for the Hills!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: chance_232 10/15/2025 12:29:21 PM (No. 2017143)
Sooo........it was a fad all along. And like all fads, it has a short shelf life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 10/15/2025 12:34:09 PM (No. 2017148)
This highlights how our young people are being played and confused by leftist politics then have to be brought back to normality.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 10/15/2025 12:36:17 PM (No. 2017153)
ALL fads eventually fade away.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Northcross 10/15/2025 12:51:23 PM (No. 2017167)
But, but. It was so trendy to be transgender last year. What happened? You mean it was never real?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mossley 10/15/2025 1:21:00 PM (No. 2017176)
#5, it's the reason reputable hospitals stopped doing trans surgery ages ago. The suicide rate among those who had the procedure was even higher than in those that considered it, but didn't get the surgery. Mutilating their bodies and taking massive amounts of hormones did not make their troubled lives better.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 10/15/2025 1:41:14 PM (No. 2017186)
Young people like to check out trendy things. They are influenced by media that is extremely liberal and gushes about how cool it is to be some form of non binary. Their friends talk about it. These young people are still forming their identities. I can remember way back to being in college. Freshman year was an eye opener but kids didn't really change their base behavior that much. About mid sophomore year, most people went through noticeable shifts, moving to a new, more adult, more permanent identity. The environment they were in made a LOT of difference. Colleges today are far more liberal than they were. But kids are not stupid, just malleable. But trying something, or even just thinking about it doesn't make you committed to it. The glitz fades. They talk to their friends and find the old enthusiasms are fading and they make new choices. Sometimes to even return to their roots. It may not be obvious because the maturing kids are still trying to fit in, but on an anonymous survey, they are free to speak without consequences. The centers of non binarism, like Hollyweird, are not going to be happy about this abandonment. They made a lot of movies that cast leads as non gender norms. To be blunt, why care what a person's gender is. Just don't expect me to learn and adopt new pronouns that I have no way of knowing whether they apply or when they might change. Maybe we should just refer to everyone as it. I really wonder about all the languages that use male/female nouns. Are they going to rewrite their whole language?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Msquared112 10/15/2025 3:05:24 PM (No. 2017209)
Obscurity is what usually happens with fads. The trans fad is little different except that lives are being ruined by surgeries and hormonal treatments. God forgive those people who promoted and encouraged this travesty.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: stevendm 10/15/2025 3:40:38 PM (No. 2017216)
Now is when the suicides begin. They realize that they went through a lot of pain and suffering to have their "fun bits" cut off only to find that it made no differrence. They are still miserable. To top it off, the fad is over and they are the freaks.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Venturer 10/15/2025 4:26:09 PM (No. 2017230)
Another burned out fad.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Sully 10/15/2025 4:32:49 PM (No. 2017237)
You had peak trans in 2023, this was mostly F to M due to depression and social contagion. Like all contagions, survivors heal and the population builds an immunity. Prior to 2010 or so, you Never had F to M trans. You had M to F in tiny tiny numbers since antiquity which is a sexual fetish. So: M to F = fetishism. F to M = social contagion plus depression.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: jalo1951 10/15/2025 4:41:51 PM (No. 2017242)
You mean normal is in vogue again?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: kono 10/15/2025 5:53:38 PM (No. 2017264)
How much of the decline is from authentic change of thought? How much is from gender ideology believers who lack boldness just returning to the privacy of their own minds? The recent years of protected status put penalties on criticizing those beliefs, making snowflakes feel it was safer to be open about it (even to be obnoxiously open about it).
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