(LifeSiteNews) — A new report posted on X shows a steep decline in the number of young people who identify as “non-binary,” suggesting that the non-conforming sexual identity contagion that has infected so many young lives over the last few years is now retreating.
“Trans identification is in free fall among the young,” author and commentator Eric Kaufman wrote on X above a chart showing the plummeting numbers of “Students Not Identifying as Male or Female” at select college campuses.
“Non-conforming sexual identity (queer, questioning, etc.) is also in sharp decline,” Kaufman noted in his X thread, adding that the numbers of those identifying as “Gay and lesbian are stable while heterosexuality has rebounded by around 10 points since 2023.”
2/ Non-conforming sexual identity (queer, questioning, etc) is also in sharp decline.
Gay and lesbian are stable while heterosexuality has rebounded by around 10 points since 2023. pic.twitter.com/fKD4G1rwi5
— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) October 14, 2025
“Not only this, but freshmen in 2024-25 were less trans and queer than seniors whereas it was the reverse when BTQ+ identity was surging in 2022-23. This suggests that gender/sexual non-conformity will continue to fall,” Kaufman predicted.
Kaufman further explained in an article at Unherd.com:
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure was 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.
Elon Musk greeted the new survey results with exuberance.
“The awful illusion has finally been shattered, with increasing repercussions for the modern-day Mengeles who mutilated children,” Musk declared in a viral post that has been viewed over 6.5 million times in less than three hours.
“The obvious truth is that you can change your appearance and dress with varying degrees of success, and I don’t oppose consenting, peaceful adults who do so, but you can never truly turn a man into a woman or a woman into a man,” Musk said. “That is biologically impossible.”
“Great credit to J.K. Rowling for her stalwart fight against this incredibly destructive mind virus,” Musk added.
“We have been winning legislatively for the last three years but now we are winning culturally,” said Chloe Cole, a leading voice for young people who have “detransitioned” after having medically, surgically, and socially attempted to “transition” to a member of the opposite sex.
“We need to keep this up, no child is born wrong (body)” Cole said.
We have been winning legislatively for the last 3 years but now we are winning culturally. We need to keep this up, no child is born wrong
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) October 14, 2025
“Let’s finish the job!” Cole said in a separate post on X. “Every detransitioner should sue their doctors for every penny they have.”
