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Why Are Fewer College Students Identifying as Transgender?

You are literally posting that you never said transgender was a fad while claiming in the following sentence that it was a fad.
And you are literally not understanding the difference between saying X is a fad versus saying the rise and fall of X is a fad.

Back to the point, a quick AI search tells me that historically about 1.5% of US teens suffer from Gender Dysphoria. If, over a period of several years, we see that rate increase to 4% and then go back down to 1.5%, then one can reasonably guess that rise in reported cases of Gender Dysphoria is a fad without saying Gender Dysphoria is a fad.

You need to organize your thinking better.
 
I'll be working Soros's Transition to Transgender booth at the Hate America Rally today to try to shore up the troops.
 
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Sorry, that is a straw man argument. I never said gender dysphoria was a fad. I do believe over the last few years it became a fad among young adults to claim they're trans, and that explains both the rise and fall in the rate. If you have another explanation that fits the facts, let's hear it.
Well, apparently the whole issue is moot as the "study" was just partisan statistical lying and there has been no drop. I encourage you to respond to @j brown's body 's link in #128.

But to continue with the hypothetical trend of rise in transgender identity followed by drop, a social "fad" is not the best explanation. First a rise like this is common historically. As conditions become more understood by Doctors and the public, self identification and professional diagnosis both rise. You can see the same trend with things like Autism, or homosexuality. Autistic people still existed 100 years ago, but they were just labeled as weird and left to struggle alone because no one understood autism. So the official statistics show a dramatic rise as understanding has increased. Gay people still existed in significant numbers 100 years ago, but they were brutally repressed by the rest of the society. So most hid their sexuality. And so when that repression eventually lessened, official statistics showed a dramatic rise in the number of gay people. The trend of rising numbers of transgender people is exactly the same. More people are willing to publicly identify in younger generations because it doesn't come with as much social stigma as previously. In older generations, more people hid their identity, and struggled and suffered for it, because the social stigma was worse. This leads to a significant rise in the official statistics.

Now, logically, if societal trends can cause a statistical rise in the numbers, a reversal of the trends can trigger a statistical drop. Now, to be clear, transgender people exist either way. Independent of societal trends. Their existence is not a fad. But what the official statistics are showing is the number that are choosing to live openly outside the closet. It is a bad thing when people are forced to live in the closet due to societal repression. We should not be going back to that
 
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That's not true.

It's literally true.

"Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals were central to the emergence of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, particularly in its early, most radical phases. Long before the term "transgender" became widely used, trans people were organizing, advocating, and resisting police violence alongside other queer communities.

The 1969 Stonewall Riots, often cited as the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement, were led in large part by trans women of color, including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. These figures were not peripheral but frontline combatants during the uprising against police raids at the Stonewall Inn. Their resistance was rooted in years of systemic harassment, criminalization, and exclusion from mainstream society."

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Key Trans Leaders in the Gay Rights Movement​

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970, one of the first organizations dedicated to protecting homeless transgender youth and sex workers—populations disproportionately affected by poverty and violence. STAR provided housing and advocacy, highlighting the intersectional nature of their activism long before the term became common.
Despite their pivotal roles, trans leaders were often excluded from leadership positions in mainstream gay rights organizations. Rivera famously delivered her “Y’all Better Quiet Down” speech at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally, where she was booed for criticizing the movement’s abandonment of trans, poor, and incarcerated people.

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Kicked any good ladders lately, @CLAX1911? Now that you've climbed them, who needs them, right?

I never needed the right to demand other people pretend I'm the opposite sex. Nobody should have ever had that right.

You needed the right to exist in society without being stoned to death, denied employment, housing, and equal civil rights. Trans people fought for you to have them. You're just a Dave Rubin-esque 'Pick Me'. They'll never accept you.
 
What I don't require I need party to accept that are the opposite sex in order to be gay. In fact nobody's required to do anything at all.

Good that you don't want acceptance among fellow conservatives, because they'll never accept you. Despite right-wing conservatives being overwhelmingly closeted gays and consumers of trans porn.
 
It's not bigotry to not accept someone as the opposite sex. In fact I would say it's bigotry to demand that they do.

"It's not bigotry to deny the Holocaust. In fact I would say its bigotry to demand that they accept it."
 
Well, apparently the whole issue is moot as the "study" was just partisan statistical lying and there has been no drop. I encourage you to respond to @j brown's body 's link in #128.

But to continue with the hypothetical trend of rise in transgender identity followed by drop, a social "fad" is not the best explanation. First a rise like this is common historically. As conditions become more understood by Doctors and the public, self identification and professional diagnosis both rise. You can see the same trend with things like Autism, or homosexuality. Autistic people still existed 100 years ago, but they were just labeled as weird and left to struggle alone because no one understood autism. So the official statistics show a dramatic rise as understanding has increased. Gay people still existed in significant numbers 100 years ago, but they were brutally repressed by the rest of the society. So most hid their sexuality. And so when that repression eventually lessened, official statistics showed a dramatic rise in the number of gay people. The trend of rising numbers of transgender people is exactly the same. More people are willing to publicly identify in younger generations because it doesn't come with as much social stigma as previously. In older generations, more people hid their identity, and struggled and suffered for it, because the social stigma was worse. This leads to a significant rise in the official statistics.

Now, logically, if societal trends can cause a statistical rise in the numbers, a reversal of the trends can trigger a statistical drop. Now, to be clear, transgender people exist either way. Independent of societal trends. Their existence is not a fad. But what the official statistics are showing is the number that are choosing to live openly outside the closet. It is a bad thing when people are forced to live in the closet due to societal repression. We should not be going back to that
No one of consequence is saying that trans people "don't exist." That straw-man really needs to be retired.
 
This is proof America can heal itself and bring reality back from the brink.

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“A new analysis has revealed a notable decline in transgender trends among American college campuses. This study indicates that, after years of increasing numbers, there has been a significant drop in students identifying as transgender or non-binary. The findings are based on surveys conducted with nearly one million students across hundreds of colleges in the United States over several decades.”

“Between 2010 and 2020, colleges experienced a rise in students claiming they were born with the wrong body parts. However, since that time, the number of students identifying as trans or non-binary has sharply decreased. One researcher highlighted that “the most striking finding” was the sudden reversal of trends around 2019-2020. They noted, “It looks like whatever social contagion factors were driving this trend may be receding.” This observation suggests that the dynamics influencing student identity may be shifting.”


Ah yes, just like how according to former Iranian President Ahmadinajad, there is no 'homosexual phenomenon' in Iran. :ROFLMAO:

You can't be serious...
 
Looks like the effort to scare people into the closet and into hiding their sexuality might be working with some percentage of young Americans.

Not exactly something to be proud or excited about.

Oh no, MAGAs like @VySky are quite proud of their oppression efforts.
 
Trans brought it on themselves.

Their push to normalize and use women’s restrooms was not well accepted.

But America does correct herself and returns to reality. It was a fad that is no longer the thing.

I can't wait to watch the MAGA Meltdown when the rest of society realizes that unisex bathrooms are the answer.

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This is proof America can heal itself and bring reality back from the brink.

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“A new analysis has revealed a notable decline in transgender trends among American college campuses. This study indicates that, after years of increasing numbers, there has been a significant drop in students identifying as transgender or non-binary. The findings are based on surveys conducted with nearly one million students across hundreds of colleges in the United States over several decades.”

“Between 2010 and 2020, colleges experienced a rise in students claiming they were born with the wrong body parts. However, since that time, the number of students identifying as trans or non-binary has sharply decreased. One researcher highlighted that “the most striking finding” was the sudden reversal of trends around 2019-2020. They noted, “It looks like whatever social contagion factors were driving this trend may be receding.” This observation suggests that the dynamics influencing student identity may be shifting.”


Yeah. REALLY weird stuff to think about IMO.

So......how's about those GROCERY PRICES? :unsure:
 
One obvious explanation is that it became fashionable to be trans and, like many fads, it's fading away.

Yes.

Just like "me too" and "Black Lives Matter".....its about petered out. Good.

There are a very few poor souls afflicted with this terrible sexual dysmorphia, but it's exceedingly rare.
 
There is a difference between defending someone and attacking your reasoning.

You expect me to apologize for calling a spade a spade? Fascist oppressors are all about targeting a disempowered minority and blaming society's ills on them. Same playbook, different era. And now the Republican Nazis are coming out of the woodwork:

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And now we have a straw-man. Care to go for the fallacy trifecta and serve up an appeal to authority?

So when transgender people come out of the closet that's a 'fashion trend' but when homosexuals came out of the closet that was different? Do you see how stupid your argument is?
 
This is proof America can heal itself and bring reality back from the brink.

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“A new analysis has revealed a notable decline in transgender trends among American college campuses. This study indicates that, after years of increasing numbers, there has been a significant drop in students identifying as transgender or non-binary. The findings are based on surveys conducted with nearly one million students across hundreds of colleges in the United States over several decades.”

“Between 2010 and 2020, colleges experienced a rise in students claiming they were born with the wrong body parts. However, since that time, the number of students identifying as trans or non-binary has sharply decreased. One researcher highlighted that “the most striking finding” was the sudden reversal of trends around 2019-2020. They noted, “It looks like whatever social contagion factors were driving this trend may be receding.” This observation suggests that the dynamics influencing student identity may be shifting.”

Maybe because life is already hard enough for them without bigots like you piling on.
 
No one of consequence is saying that trans people "don't exist." That straw-man really needs to be retired.
There are many bigots who believe exactly that. They love to argue a trans person is just pretending to get a benefit in sports, or lying to get an advantage in college applications, or to get into women's bathrooms, or because their friends think its cool. They are denying the existence of that trans identity and implying that people claiming that identity are just dishonest grifters or brainwashed idiots. For example, our VP: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/vance-transgender-college-admissions

But that is beside the point. You asked me a question...

If you have another explanation that fits the facts, let's hear it.
... and I took the time to answer it in detail. I did not accuse you of denying their existence. But someone reading my explanation carelessly might have reached an incorrect conclusion so it needed to be explicitly stated. Now are you going to actually respond to my full answer, or continue to dodge?
 
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