It's Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Eric Kaufman is himself a man of the left.

He is a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in England.

He is also involved in a new

report coming from the Center for Hedroduct Social Science, published as a summary in Unheard,

which is a place you find some very interesting scientific reports. The title of the report is

the decline of trans and queer identity among young Americans. And as Eric Kaufman tells us, the report shows

that since 2003, quote, both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation

Z, end quote. So let's just look at the numbers, or at least let's look at the pattern first

of all. Then we'll talk about what it means. The pattern is,

and this is substantiated by surveys from groups like the Foundation for Individual Rights and

Expression, that's Fire, very well-known group. It conducts a very large survey of undergraduates

in the United States. The most recent poll involves 60,000 students. So you're talking about a very, very large sample.

60,000, that's in the year 2025.

So this year, 60,000 undergraduates.

Professor Kaufman goes on to say, quote,

my analysis of the raw data shows that in that year,

just 3.6% of respondents identified as gender other than male or female. By comparison, he says,

the figure was 5.2% in 2004, 6.8% in both 2022 and 2023. Summary, quote, in other words,

the share of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years.

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