The Trend Is Breaking: Young Americans Are Walking Away from Gender Ideology
A new study from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science has confirmed what many parents, pastors, and common-sense Americans have long suspected. The wave of gender identity confusion sweeping through schools and universities is finally starting to break.
According to fresh 2025 data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), the number of students identifying as something other than male or female has fallen by nearly half in just two years. In 2023, 6.8%of U.S. undergraduates called themselves transgender or nonbinary. Today that number has dropped to just 3.6%.
The fall is even steeper at elite institutions that were once ground zero for woke ideology. Andover Phillips Academydropped from 9.2% in 2023 to 3% in 2025. Brown University fell from 5% to 2.6%.
It is not just gender identity. The share of students identifying as bisexual, queer, or questioning has fallen by roughly 10 percentage points in the same time period. After a decade of constant rise, the pendulum has swung back toward reality.
A Fad Disguised as Truth
For years, the media and education establishment treated radical gender ideology as a permanent social revolution, a moral truth no one could question. But the numbers tell a different story.
Young people are discovering that truth is not a trend. The movement that claimed to liberate them has instead left confusion, regret, and broken bodies in its wake.
The fact that this movement is now collapsing so quickly proves what many of us have said all along. It was never about a deeply rooted identity or someone being “born that way.” It was always about how effectively young people could be indoctrinated by relentless messaging from the Left. If this were truly an innate identity, it would not disappear within two short years. The sudden decline exposes how artificial and manufactured the entire movement really was.
Even the study’s author, who approaches the issue from a secular viewpoint, admits that the decline cannot be explained by politics, religion, or social media. It is a cultural shift all its own. The emotional high of rebellion is wearing off, and reality is catching up.
Why It Matters
This is more than statistics. It is proof that America’s children are not beyond saving. The propaganda may be loud, but truth has a way of breaking through the noise.
It is also a warning. The same schools and institutions that pushed this ideology on our children will never admit they were wrong. They will quietly pivot to the next cause without ever taking responsibility for the harm they have caused.
That is why Missouri must lead by protecting kids from irreversible medical procedures, rejecting the use of taxpayer funds for gender experiments, and passing Amendment 3 to permanently protect children and families in our Constitution.
The Tide Is Turning
The gender revolution was never about truth. It was about rebellion against the order that God Himself established. From the very beginning, “male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). That truth cannot be rewritten by culture or erased by legislation.
As the fog begins to lift, more young people are realizing that they were not born into confusion but led into it. The same enemy who whispered in the Garden that we could define good and evil for ourselves is whispering again today that we can define our own identity apart from God. But that lie cannot stand forever.
The tide is turning because the truth of God’s Word always prevails. When deception runs its course, truth remains. Our task is to speak that truth boldly, to protect the innocent, and to remind this generation that real freedom is found in Christ alone.
Let’s make sure Missouri keeps leading the way.
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