The proportion of Americans identifying as LGBT has risen to highs, especially among Generation Z, Thursday's new Gallup poll shows that trend can see departures under President Donald Trump Masu. Gender treatment for minors.
Polls found that 23% of Z-Americans born between 1997 and 2006 identified them as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. For comparison, 14.2% of millennials born between 1981 and 1996 identified the same method. Both groups identify as non-heterosexual compared to older generations such as Generation X and the “baby boomer generation.”
Gallup polls surveyed more than 14,000 US adults last year. This was collected through telephone interviews with adults aged 18 and older, and found that 9.3% identified them as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or another nonheterosexual identity. This has risen sharply since 2020 when that number was half that number, and has risen sharply since 2012, when Gallup first began tracking sexual orientation and gender identity, only 3.5% yeah.
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“The percentage of LGBTQ+ identification is likely to continue growing given the ongoing generational change,” wrote Jeffrey M. Jones, a senior editor at Gallup and researcher.
“One of the reasons why LGBTQ+ is highly identified among younger adults is that they are much more likely to consider bisexual themselves than older adults,” Jones writes.
The study also found differences between people with political ideology, as people identifying as LGBTs are more likely to live in women, liberals, whites and urban areas. Of these, 21% are identified as liberal, 8% are moderate and 3% are conservative. The proportion of LGBT identification has almost tripled over a decade, with Americans in their 20s and 30s identifying themselves as bisexual, with more women, especially compared to men.
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However, Heritage Foundation senior law fellow Sarah Parshall Perry said the findings are a snapshot in time due to the “onscaping” of the Biden administration's decision on gender and gender over the past four years. But it will begin to turn around under the Trump administration. cracking down on medical procedures for transgender minors.
“I think we're seeing it go back to this common sense, but fewer and fewer young people are beginning to identify as LGBTQ,” Perry told Fox News Digital in an interview. “After some of these policies have been reduced to granular levels, I am very interested in what the numbers will look like in four years.”
“It was entirely natural for me that it was Generation Z that experienced the most rapid increase, because they are now suffering from such a battle between reality and cultural fit. In, because they are the young people today,” Perry said. . “I think that's exactly where these kids are and that's exactly why we're seeing these levels of increase.”
The poll found that 85.7% of respondents were identified as straight, 5.2% bisexual, 2.0% homosexual, 1.4% as lesbian, and 1.3% as transgender. Less than 1% of participants identified as other nontraditional LGBT labels, including Pansexual, Asexual, or Queer. Five percent of respondents refused to respond.
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Trump signed a gender-related executive order in the first 100 days, where he has already filed multiple lawsuits. One of these orders, “defends women from gender ideological extremism and restores biological truth to the federal government,” and federal agencies say that they can use gender as male or female based on their biological gender. It requires strict recognition and prohibits the use of gender pronouns in federal documents. It also directs agencies to halt funding for transgender medical treatment for transgender federal prisoners and remove policies promoting radical “gender ideology.”
