Social Trends Are Causing Rapid Growth in People to Identify as LGBT

WASHINGTON (TND) — The percentage of individuals who identify as LGBT is practically doubling from generation to generation, and new findings suggest 21st-century social trends are the cause.

Illustrating this, among other evidence, is data that LGBT identification has been running at twice the rate of LGBT sexual behavior, according to a report from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI).

According to the report, LGBT identification among Americans under 30 increased by approximately 11% between 2008 and 2021.

Simultaneously, individuals under 30 who reported a sexual partner of the same gender only increased by 4% since the 1990s.  

"The majority of the increase in LGBT identity can be traced to how those who only engage in heterosexual behavior describe themselves,” the report states. “It seems that an underlying psychological disposition is inclining people with heterosexual behavior to identify both as LGBT and very liberal."

 

The CSPI report concluded that very liberal or far-left young people, who are much more likely to identify as LGBT than their less liberal counterparts, are primary contributors to the LGBT environment we see today.

However, the report noted that data suggests that “while progressives form the core of the movement, there has also been a liberal shift in the broader culture that has affected a wider range of people.”

Data among young people shows mental health problems, liberal ideology, and LGBT identity are strongly correlated, the report indicated. Evidence also appears to show that people, especially liberals, no longer feel depressed when it comes to identifying as non-heterosexual.

"However, it also indicates that very liberal young people with incidental homosexual feelings are increasingly identifying as LGBT,” the report notes, adding that “a more modernist, transgressive youth culture” is leading subgroups with the right psychological predispositions to be pushed towards identifying as both LGBT and very liberal.

Earlier this month, liberal pundit and comedian Bill Maher said it was okay to ask questions about such rapidly changing characteristics of society, like LGBT identification. 

I’m happy for LGBT folks that we now live in an age where they can live their authentic lives openly, and we should always be mindful of respecting and protecting, but someone needs to say it: not everything’s about you,” Maher said, referring to LGBT activists.

It’s okay to ask questions about something that’s very new and involves children," Maher says. "The answer can’t always be that anyone from a marginalized community is automatically right, trump card, mic drop, end of discussion. Because we’re literally experimenting on children."

by ALEC SCHEMMEL | The National Desk

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