Our friends at the Daily Citizen report that new data from the Centers for Disease Control shows the number of teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual has dropped dramatically.
Social psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University analyzed the CDC’s 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey and found the decline is striking — especially among younger girls.
The numbers matter because they tell us something important about what has been driving the spike in LGBT identification among young people in the first place.
For years, researchers have said that the sudden spike in the number of teens who identified as transgender seemed like a social contagion. The same thing appears to have been at work with LGB sexual orientations as well.
In other words, a significant number of young people — particularly girls — may have identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual because the culture around them made it popular. Now that the cultural winds are shifting, those numbers are shifting too.
We have written before about how support for same-sex marriage and other pro-LGBT issues is falling along with support for sex-change procedures.
Corporate support for LGBT “Pride” has fizzled in recent years. Fortune 500 companies have abandoned the pro-LGBT Equality Index, and many workplaces no longer use pro-LGBT diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations spent years citing each other’s work in a circular pattern to manufacture a fake consensus about performing sex-change procedures on kids. Whistleblowers have come forward testifying about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the risks, consequences, or alternatives.
Arkansas has been at the forefront of protecting children from gender ideology. In 2021, Arkansas’ lawmakers passed the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Arkansas was the first state in America to enact a law like the SAFE Act, and since then lawmakers in more than half the country have passed similar legislation. Arkansas has also been a leader when it comes to enacting good laws that protect public school students from pro-LGBT indoctrination in the classroom.
This new CDC data fits into the bigger picture of how attitudes may be changing when it comes to sexual orientation, gender identity, and similar issues. It’s something conservatives can be cautiously optimistic about as we go forward.
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