A FIFTH member of Generation Z identifies as LGBT, seven times more than Boomers

America’s revolution in sexual and gender identities was in full swing this week, with the release of a far-reaching social survey showing that a fifth of Generation Z now identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). .

A Gallup poll showed that Gen Z adults, who were born between 1997 and 2004, have embraced alternative lifestyles more easily than any other group: roughly twice that of millennials and seven times that of boomers.

Members of Generation Z are more likely than all previous generations to come out as lesbian (2.2 percent) and gay (3.4 percent), but perhaps the biggest change is how many identify as bisexual (13.1 percent). percent) and trans (1.9 percent).

Gen Z’s embrace of gender fluidity is often tied to how they grew up around the time same-sex marriages became legal, but that doesn’t mean everyone is on board with the change. .

Although gay marriages enjoy broad public support, gender identity issues are at the forefront of America’s culture wars, especially the growing number of trans teens seeking puberty blockers and even surgery.

The number of Americans who identify as LGBT has increased significantly in recent decades. Nearly a fifth of Gen Zers (left) identify as LGBT compared to less than 3 percent of Boomers (right)

Reactions to the Gallup poll of more than 10,000 American adults split along progressive and conservative lines.

Evan Shapiro, a commentator and media personality, said Boomers and other oldies had to move with the changing tides of America and “understand that neither sexuality nor gender is ‘a given’, and learn some new pronouns.”

Jay Richards, a family values ​​advocate for the Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, questioned the significance of the survey, noting how the most marked shift in Generation Z was toward bisexuality.

“That’s the category that means the least, practically speaking,” Richards told DailyMail.com.

‘Are you referring to people who have had one or two same-sex experiences? Or heterosexuals who might be willing to date someone of the same sex who passes for the opposite sex?’

Richards, also an author and documentarian, said the changes could reflect “the confusion among Generation Z about biological sex as a category” at a time when the relevance of sex at birth is being questioned.

There are also “social benefits of being a ‘gender minority’ in some contexts,” he added.

“I suspect that the results of this survey have more to do with these social dynamics than with any real underlying changes in people’s sexuality.”

Across the generations, about 7.2 percent of American adults now identify as LGBT, more than double the 3.5 percent from a decade ago, when Gallup began asking the question. It has been largely flat since 2021.

Across the generations, about 7.2% of American adults now identify as LGBT, more than double the percentage of 3.5% a decade ago.

According to pollsters, the rise in non-heterosexual identities among younger Americans suggests the trend will continue.

“However, this growth depends on younger people entering adulthood in future years continuing to be much more likely to identify as LGBT than their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents,” Gallup said.

Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy campaigns against too much “diversity” in America

America’s trajectory is welcomed by many social liberals, but not without opposition.

Republicans have proposed more than 350 bills in state legislatures aimed at restricting LGBT rights this year, more than double the number of bills introduced in 2022, according to a tracker updated by three human rights activists. trans.

It is also shaping up to be a theme for next year’s presidential election.

Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, a billionaire businessman and author, entered the Republican presidential race this week with an ‘anti-wake’ platform aimed at crusaders for social justice.

“We have celebrated our ‘diversity’ so much that we forget all the ways we are truly equal to Americans, united by ideals that united a divided and headstrong group of people 250 years ago,” Ramaswamy posted on social media.

The US survey results echo trends across the West. UK census data released last month showed that young people in England and Wales are more than twice as likely to identify as LGBT than other age groups.

More than 47 percent of those who identified as a different gender at odds with their birth sex were between the ages of 16 and 34, even though the age bracket represents less than a third of the general population.