dailycaller.com Eric Kaufmann ignited a virtual firestorm Oct. 14.
“[Trans] identification is in free fall among the young,” the professor wrote on X. (RELATED: College Students Identifying As Trans And Non-Binary Absolutely Craters In Just Two Years)
Kaufmann credited, in small part, improved mental health. But, he noted, the “decline in anxiety and depression occurred within trans, bisexual and queer groups as much as among others. So it wasn’t the case that most of those who solved their emotional problems became heterosexual … The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use.”
1/ NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young
(h/t @FIRE data in particular) pic.twitter.com/i0Z1BNcWG8— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) October 14, 2025
Cutting off your private parts is so five years ago. Duh.
There’s a few problems with the data heralded by Kaufmann as proof of transgenderism’s waning popularity. Kaufmann’s chart demonstrates a declining share of students “not identifying as male or female.” That’s not quite the same as identifying as the opposite sex.
Kaufmann responded to critics in a Substack post.
“The meaning of the term transgender is not fixed to only refer to binary transgender individuals who identify as male or female. Movement organizations and activists include non-binary under their definition of trans.”
Another potentially confounding factor: Kaufmann’s chart displays data from three surveys, two of which exclusively surveyed students at elite schools (Brown University and college preparatory school Phillips Academy Andover). The third survey, conducted by the foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), samples “over 50,000 students per year,” mostly at leading research universities, according to Kaufmann.
That survey “involve[s] only a small share of total students – perhaps 1-10 percent of the target pool, depending on the institution.”
Jean M. Twenge, a San Diego State psychology professor, set out to determine if transgender identity really is in free fall. (EXCLUSIVE: Texas School District Tells Teachers Not To ‘Out’ Their Trans, Non-Binary Students To Parents)
She determined it is, first analyzing data from the “nationally representative Household Pulse survey,” which asks respondents directly if they identify as transgender.
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