Report: A Quarter of Young Americans Identify as LGBTQ+
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
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Dr. Wilfred Reilly—Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University & Author of “Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his most recent editorial at National Review, “Are a Quarter of Young Americans Actually LGBTQ (etc.)? Don’t Bet on It.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/are-a-quarter-of-young-americans-actually-lgbtq-etc-dont-bet-on-it/
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| 0:54.5 | Dr. Wilfred Riley, Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, and author of Taboo, 10 Facts You Can't Talk About. |
| 1:03.5 | Hello, Professor. Thank you for making time again for our Wednesday chat. How you doing? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, I'm doing well. Glad to be back, as always. |
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| 1:15.5 | You have a piece over at National Review. I'm going to read the headline, and then we'll chat about it. |
| 1:22.0 | On a quarter of young Americans, actually, LGBTQ plus plus IA, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I'm adding that because I don't want to leave any letters out. |
| 1:32.0 | Don't bet on it, you say, why the surge in LGBTQ identity deserves a closer look. |
| 1:39.0 | So set the stage for me because this report came out that said 20% of young Americans now identify as gay or LGBTQ IA, something or other, right? |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, that's the first stage here. So the hill recently got a hold of and ran some data from the censuses. |
| 1:59.0 | It's called the YBRSS, the Youth Behavioral Survey of Risk, I believe. |
| 2:06.0 | But the piece do a great deal of attention because the core theme of it was that 26% of young people, high schoolers, some college students, now identify as LGBT. |
| 2:18.0 | I think most people from kind of your age cohort, I think it's a couple of years behind mine, my age cohort, that just reads as gay. |
| 2:25.0 | So a lot of people were asking this question, like, is it possible that one in four people is gay? What does that mean for reproduction? What does it mean for marriage? |
| 2:34.0 | What kind of tortures have we been placing on gay people in the past if no one saw this? And I actually requested the original data and looked at it and that's not really what they found. |
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