LGB-free? Many Young Teen Girls Are Ditching “Gay” and “Bi” Identification
Are we seeing a return to the days when “gay” meant happy? While I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that, a societal transition is afoot. Sexual devolutionary (“LGB”) identification, once all the rage among young people, is now diminishing. The group leading the decline is, too, the same group inordinately responsible for the increase in such identification in the first place: young teen girls.
My, my, it could almost make a cynic think this was all just a fad.
And that relates to the bad news here. This social change likely doesn’t represent recognition of Truth — just realignment of tastes.
The Washington Post reported on the story Thursday, writing:
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
… The rate of boys who identify as gay or bisexual has remained roughly the same over the past decade. But a few years ago, after the pandemic shutdowns, the CDC data showed big upticks in the percentage of high school girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual.
Now, could this have anything to do with a consequence of the shutdowns: kids spending far more time online? (Girls are more influenced by social media.)
Coming to mind, too, is the old saying, “An idle mind is the Devil’s workshop.”
Twenge emphasizes the sex-related difference at her Substack, stating:
The decline appears to be driven almost entirely by girls. Identifying as LGB dropped from 27% in 2023 to 22% in 2025 among girls, and from 9% to 7% among boys.… The previous increase in identifying as LGB was also larger among girls, with a 128% increase (more than doubling) from 2015 to 2021 among girls and a 99% increase (doubling) from 2015 to 2023 among boys.
… The decline is by far the largest among 9th grade girls, where identifying as LGB dropped from 30% in 2021 to 17% in 2025, nearly cutting the numbers in half.
A chart Twenge provides (below) illustrates the sex-difference phenomenon well.