All things come to pass…even the degenerate! On Wednesday, October 15. 2025 Red State published this headline, “Is Being Trans No Longer Cool? Number of College Students Who Identify As Trans, Non-Binary Plummets.”
The latest thing to be losing its coolness among Gen Zers, thankfully, is identifying as transgender or nonbinary. A recent survey of Gen Zers from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) found that roughly 3.6 percent of undergraduate students in the U.S. identify as neither male nor female. That number fell by half from its peak in 2023 at seven percent, according to a report from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. In 2024, that number was at 5.2 percent.
It’s no longer “trendy” to be “trans.”
There are several things that could explain the drop in trans and non-binary identification. One of the main causes could be an overall uptick in the mental health of the nation’s young people. In post-pandemic 2022, a disturbing 44 percent of college students showed signs of depression. That number continued to drop, to 41 percent in 2023 and 38 percent in 2024.
Which brings us to another culprit, social media. It’s no secret that teens and young people are more connected to social media than ever. A December 2024 Pew Research Survey showed that 90 percent of teens said they used YouTube in 2022, 60 percent said they frequented TikTok and Instagram, and 55 percent used Snapchat. Facebook and X seemed less popular among teens.
Another explanation offered up is social contagion. A 2023 study showed that over half of teenage girls who identified as transgender had friends who also identified as transgender. The study also showed that both boys and girls who claimed to be transgender had friends who claimed to be transgender. But maybe the simplest example is this: like saddle shoes, miniskirts, mood rings, and Rubik’s Cubes, identifying as transgender has been no more than a fad. A weird fad, but a fad nonetheless.
“I said from the beginning that this was nothing more than a fad, and some people called me a conspiracy theorist.” said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based centrally in Harrison, Arkansas. “This admits another thing that I’ve been called a conspiracy theorist over and that’s the fact that homosexuality is a mental illness. It was listed as a mental illness by the medical field up until 1973. I don’t know what changed that it was removed as a mental illness but all one had to do was look at a Pride event and freaks that attended them and you could clearly see it was, and still is a mental illness. Now, as the mental fog is clearing that was caused by the illegal lockdowns imposed on us by our government over the Chinease flu, what now of all the people, including very young children that went through with sexual mutilation? In my opinion, every parent that put their child through sexual mutilation, every school member that ‘groomed’ a child into thinking they could change sexes, and every single doctor and hospital that performed these sexual mutilations should be locked up in prison! These people ruined countless lives that now have to live through the consequences that others said would be good for them.”
