CDC Data Shows Younger Teens Much Less Likely to Identify as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual

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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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Pennsylvania School District Backs Down After Hiding Kids’ Gender Transitions From Parents

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Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) say a Pennsylvania school district has rescinded a policy that required teachers to hide students’ social transitions from parents.

The Chester County Intermediate Unit 24 School District had a policy mandating that staff use students’ preferred names and pronouns at school while keeping parents in the dark. Teachers who refused to go along with the policy faced disciplinary action.

After attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom and the Independence Law Center sent a letter outlining the policy’s constitutional violations, the district backed down and rescinded the policy.

This is good news, but the situation should never have happened in the first place.

We have written before about how pro-LGBT activists have used public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.

Schools have been hiding important information about students from their parents. A New York school district secretly treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent. A Massachusetts school helped an eleven-year-old girl “socially transition” without her parents ever being told. And earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents challenging California’s secret gender transition policy — a strong signal that these policies violate the law.

Public school students should not be taught to question their gender, and schools should not lie to parents about what their children are experiencing at school.

Arkansas has been a leader when it comes to passing laws that block radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom and help prevent schools from socially transitioning children. Arkansas’ Given Name Act and other good laws protect children and affirm parental rights in our state.

Last month, Family Council joined an amicus brief defending parental rights in a federal lawsuit before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, because federal court cases like it could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in court.

Parents are not the enemy. They are the first and most important line of defense for their children. No school should ever be allowed to cut them out.

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HHS Report Exposes Alleged Insurance Fraud Surrounding Sex-Change Procedures Performed on Children

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On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a startling report exposing ways medical professionals and facilities allegedly profited from sex-change procedures performed on kids.

In a statement, HHS said:

“According to the report, more than 225 hospitals and health systems established pediatric gender programs nationwide. The report also analyzes nationwide claims data from 2015 through 2025 and identifies approximately $50 million in insurance claims for puberty blockers billed using endocrine disorder diagnostic code E34.9 (Endocrine Disorder, Unspecified). It further reports that nearly $11 million in claims for patients ages 13–17 were billed using a diagnosis code for precocious puberty E301 — findings the report says warrant additional review of insurance coding practices.”

In a separate statement issued on X, Vice President Vance said:

“For years now, some hospitals and healthcare providers have been subjecting children to horrific, experimental treatments in service of radical gender ideologies. Today, thanks to the Wolves in White Coats report released by @HHSGov, we know why: profit. It turns out that convincing vulnerable children to reject their gender can create patients for life, earning hospitals tens of thousands of dollars in additional revenue per child.

“The report contains deeply disturbing allegations, and I encourage every American and every parent, to read it. More than just pushing these procedures on kids, hospitals and providers may have been defrauding Medicaid and private insurers by using misleading or fraudulent billing codes to get insurance to cover the costs.”

Over the past 20 years, the number of children who identify as transgender has skyrocketed — especially among biological girls.

Many hospitals opened “gender clinics” that prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids or even perform sex-change procedures on children. But public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support these “gender transitions.”

These drugs and procedures carry serious risks — including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems.

Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives.

Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations spent years citing each other’s work in a circular pattern, manufacturing a fake consensus about performing sex-change surgeries on kids.

Stories like these have prompted investigations and legal action against doctors and facilities that performed these procedures on children.

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, but since 2021 lawmakers in more than half the country have passed similar legislation. Federal courts have upheld the SAFE Act and other state laws like it.

This latest HHS report underscores that Arkansas’ lawmakers were right to pass the SAFE Act. Arkansans can be proud that their state has done so much to protect children from these dangerous sex-change procedures.

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