Young adults are walking from LGBTQ+ identity; it was more of a social contagion than an orientation. By Vittorio.
We built a system where identifying as LGBT gave you protected status, social capital, media representation, and institutional preference. The superior class par excellence.
No one in American history had more unearned systemic privilege than the alphabet people. It’s not a shock that teenagers adopted it. They were adapting to the incentives.
What we are seeing now is a return to normalcy since the incentives have been removed.
And for those who went trans and had bits lopped off? You went too far on the virtue signalling and the quest for unearned privilege — if you were pushed into it, sue those who pushed you.
Jean M. Twenge has concluded that non-heterosexual identity is in free fall among U.S. young adults, based on newly available nationally representative data. Her analysis, published on November 5, 2025, and updated in a follow-up post on March 3, 2026, shows a significant decline in self-identification as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) among young adults, with bisexual women showing the largest drop.
This trend appears to be part of a broader shift, as Twenge also found sharp declines in transgender and nonbinary identity among 18- to 22-year-olds and teens as young as 13.
She attributes the drop to possible changes in social acceptance, mental health improvements, or a fading of social trends, though she cautions that long-term patterns will only be clear with future data.
My shocked face is numb with surprise.
Peak LGB+ was 20% in 2022. Sex researchers says the long term rate of gayness in men is about 3% (prevented from rising by disease), and less than 1% for lesbianism.