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New CDC Report: Teen Sexual LGB Identity Drops Dramatically

San Diego State University social psychologist Jean Twenge has been tracking how trans ideology is losing it’s incredible fast-rising grip on teens, reported here and here. She added to her research conclusions recently, looking specifically at sexual identity and behavior and American highschoolers. Her findings are certainly worth digging into.

She explains, in her headline, “Younger teens are now much less likely to say they are lesbian, gay, or bisexual” and this is also thankfully reflected in much of their sexual behavior.

Drawing her new conclusions from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s 2025 Youth Risk Survey, Twenge says the changes in youth sexual orientation identity “are striking.” Declines are happening most starkly among younger teens, and especially among girls.

She observes “it is really does look like a free fall” for high schoolers, especially 9th grade students. Her chart demonstrates the remarkable shift downward.

These lines denote the numbers of U.S. high school students “identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual” by grade from 2015-2025. Identifying as any of these dropped from 27% in 2023 to 22% in 2025 among girls. For boys, the decline was from 9% to 7%. She explains the previous increases from 2015 through 2020 were most notably among girls. “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.”

Specifically, the decline among 9th grade girls “dropped from 30% in 2021 to 17% in 2025, nearly cutting the numbers in half.” Declines among 12th grade girls have been much smaller, “from 26% in 2021 to 28% in 2023 and 25% in 2025.”

The most dramatic shift is among those who identified at bisexual, which is easily the largest “LGBT” category. This majority is most pronounced among younger populations and women, indicating more experimentation than anything else. But of this recent change, Twenge explains, “While 26% of 9th grade girls identified as bisexual in 2021, only 13% – half as many – did in 2025.”

That is a truly stunning development, indicating something is at work in the water of social culture. Data strongly supports the social contagion of gender identity shifts, but not as much attention has yet been given to the social contagion driving sexual behavior identity. The CDC data Twenge is now presenting certainly points in that direction.

The CDC Youth Risk Behavior data also tracks self-reports of actual relational behavior. Twenge explains “most high school students are not sexually active” and teen sexual behavior has been declining over the past decades.

But the few American teens who are sexually involved in same-sex behavior is a curious story. It is clearly declining among high school girls, but still growing among young boys as shown here.

Twenge observes, the data clearly “suggest that high school girls, especially younger girls, are no longer as likely to have same-sex partners.”

Professor Twenge also observes that this trend of overall LGBT decline is not being reflected in the data for young adults, ages 18 to 24. She explains that “it appears non-heterosexual identification is not declining (at least not anymore).” Instead, “It has stabilized and is no longer racing upward as it did between 2014 and 2022, when identifying as LGB nearly tripled among U.S. 18- to 24-year-olds.” She adds, “Among 25- to 34-year-olds, identifying as LGB also stabilized after more than doubling from 2014 to 2023.”

So, we are not seeing same-sex sexuality declines among young twenty- and thirty-somethings, but we are seeing a leveling off in the increases that have presented themselves in the past 20 years. Professor Twenge admits this is a curious development, “a generational or cohort effect, with different trends over the years for different age groups.”

She then asks, “What happened during this time that impacted 9th grade girls the most, especially their LGB identification and behavior?”

She humbly and refreshingly admits, “I have to confess: I have no idea.”

Human behavior in the midst of changing social and ideological dynamics is truly interesting. Culture drives so much of this, and it certainly is good news that culturally speaking, the wind appears to be going out of the sails of the sexual and gender revolution. It is now showing itself in the lives of our young people.

Stay tuned folks, the Daily Citizen will keep you updated.

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Judge Blocks University of California’s ‘Misgendering’ Speech Policy

A California judge ruled against University of California’s policy of punishing students who “misgender” or “deadname” individuals who identify as “transgender.” 

Defending Education challenged UC’s “Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy” and “Anti-Discrimination Policy” in June 2026, arguing that the policies forced students to use language that promotes “transgender” ideology and threatened students “who dare to disagree with the prevailing campus orthodoxy.” 

District Judge Fred W. Slaughter issued a preliminary injunction on behalf of Defending Education and its members, barring UC schools from enforcing the rules against them. Defending Education had sought a broader injunction against the use of the policy, but the judge gave a narrow ruling.  

The Sexual Violence Policy prohibits “intentional and repeated use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s gender identity (i.e., misgendering).”

The policy states that a “hostile environment” is created when, for example, “a transgender man is intentionally and repeatedly called by his dead name (i.e., refers to a name that a transgender person was given at birth but that they no longer use).” 

In other words, the policy prohibits students from calling transgender-identified individuals by names and pronouns consistent with their correct biological sex.

This is not just an abstract policy that threatens students who don’t believe transgender ideology. 

Students at all 10 UC schools must undergo yearly “Sexual Harassment, Anti-Discrimination, Prevention and Education” training. The training emphasizes that students create a “hostile environment” when they don’t want to share a restroom with someone of the opposite sex or when they fail to acknowledge another’s “gender identity.” 

Defending Education is a nonprofit grassroots organization that works “to restore free speech and the free exchange of ideas across K-12 and higher education while keeping political ideology and activism out of our schools.” The organization fights indoctrination in the classroom and promotes “the reestablishment of a quality, non-political education for all students.”

Its members, like “Student A” in the lawsuit, believe “that people are either male or female.” Her faith keeps her from affirming false “preferred pronouns” or “chosen names.” 

According to the complaint, she has no animosity “towards people who identify as transgender or nonbinary,” but:

In fact, she thinks that affirming someone’s non-biological “gender identity” is harmful to that person because it encourages him to believe a falsehood about himself and discourages him from seeking proper care to address his gender dysphoria.

“Student C,” also listed in the lawsuit, likewise believes that “people are either male or female.” While he wants to speak up in class when these issues are raised or speak out publicly about men in women’s private spaces, he “self-censors” because he could “be punished for violating UC’s policies.” 

UC policies violate the First Amendment rights of like-minded students who cannot affirm transgender lies. Such compelled speech is unconstitutional. 

Defending Ed President Nicole Neily applauded Judge Slaughter’s decision and said the organization will continue to battle for students’ First Amendment rights: 

We are gratified by today’s district court decision enjoining the University of California system’s coercive speech policy against our members. It is unconstitutional for public universities to compel student speech, and we will continue to defend this principle in California and other schools across the country as needed.

We wish them success as the case, Defending Education v. Maria Anguiano, makes its way through the courts. 

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Massachusetts Family Fights for Custody of ‘Trans’ Daughter

A Massachusetts family is fighting for custody of their daughter after she was removed from their home because they would not affirm her claim that she’s a boy.

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko allege that their daughter, Sophie, was first groomed and “transitioned” into believing she was a boy by her high school. Their Catholic faith would not allow them to agree with false “transgender” ideology, so the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed the then-15-year-old girl from their home.

The Kutzkos, along with Vernadette Broyles, president and chief counsel of Child & Parental Rights Campaign, explained the story to Fox News Religion Correspondent Lauren Green on her podcast Lighthouse Faith. 

Joseph Kutzko explained that their daughter was secretly “transitioned” after she was exposed to LGBT teaching through the Northborough-Southborough Regional School District. He said the topics conflicted with their “Catholic beliefs about human dignity [and] creation as male and female.”

In November of 2024, the Kutzkos noticed behavior changes in their 15-year old daughter, as she became more withdrawn. Up until that time, Sophie had been deeply involved with her family in their local church.

Algonquin Regional High School had placed her in counseling sessions – without the Kutzko’s knowledge or consent. The school lied and told them she “was staying after school for extra math help.”

Broyles explained the school was doing what schools across the country have done – secretly transitioning Sophie. She added, “Sophie had started to reject her sex, like so many thousands of girls across the country.” The school used a male name and pronouns to refer to her, affirming her rejection of her natural sex.

Broyles stated that the school reported the family to DCF because “they knew this Catholic family would not affirm the falsehood that their daughter was a boy.” 

Joseph said that they’ve had no contact with their daughter since January of 2025, and Broyles added the court put the no-contact decision “entirely in the hands of this minor child.”

The family is fighting in court to be able to contact Sophie, to bring her back home, and to stop the court from giving her testosterone.

Broyles said there were also initial allegations of physical abuse and neglect against Joseph, but these charges were untrue and unsupported, so the cases have been dropped.

Massachusetts DCF – along with many schools, transgender activists, politicians, state legislatures, and other child protective services agencies – call it “abuse” for parents not to affirm a child’s sexual identity confusion.

This is not an isolated event, despite what trans activists and their allies maintain, saying, “That never happens.”

It does happen, and has been happening for years now. Across the country.

Schools have been inculcating children into transgender ideology, teaching that they might really be the opposite sex – or another pseudo-gender altogether. This indoctrination often begins with impressionable young children in pre-kindergarten, continuing through 12th grade.

Schools then help these confused, sexualized children to “socially and medically transition,” as the Daily Citizen has repeatedly reported.

Broyles told Green that Child & Parental Rights Campaign has been contacted by parents in many different states who are in similar situations, as her organization works with parents who seek to protect their parental rights and their relationships with their children.

Most of these families suffer in silence, she added, because courts may hold them in contempt for discussing their case. She said that Massachusetts courts have protected parents’ free speech rights, which is why the Kutzkos are speaking out.

Green highlighted the importance of this issues, saying:

It is the spiritual battle of our cultural times, as people of faith war with various school districts, government services, government agencies over their parental rights.

If you’ve not paid a lot of attention to this, for whatever reason, … this is of utmost importance, because children have been removed from their homes, legally, when a child rejects their biological sex.

In the name of transgenderism, state legislatures, schools and child protective services are destroying parent-child relationships, attacking parental rights, and violating free speech and religious freedom.

This is, indeed, a spiritual battle; the Kutskos and other Christian parents are warring against the darkness of transgender ideology. Let’s pray for them to continue to have strength, to prevail and to have restored relationships with their children.

Listen to Lauren Green’s interview with the Kutzkos and Vernadette Broyles at Lighthouse Faith.

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Young Activists Are Pushing Back Against Traditional LGBT Voices

LGBT ideology has always been radical. Revolution is the movement’s functional DNA, and as such, radical revolution is never satisfied. Radicals are gonna radical. That is why stories of younger LGBT activists publicly turning on old-school LGBT peers for not being radical enough are starting to appear in the news.

Tracy Hager lives in northeast Portland, Oregon and has flown what she calls “the gay American flag” outside her home for the past 30 years. It is an adulteration of the American flag, replacing the red and blue bars with the gay movement’s gaudy colors. Hager told her local NBC news affiliate, “I fly my flag just to support my gay community, bring awareness,” explaining, “I’m a proud lesbian; I’m a proud gay veteran.”

But being proud of one’s nation is too traditionalist for some LGBT activists.

Hager found her home had been vandalized last week by local trans activists because her flag seemed to support American patriotism. Her porch post holding the flag was vandalized with red paint with the message “F**k UR FLAG” above a curious symbol, also in red.

Hager explained to Portland’s Fox12, “We’ve come to realize that symbol is an LGBTQ transgender anarchy symbol, and it appears that I’ve been targeted by my own community for flying the gay American flag because it has the blue background and the white stars.” Hager confessed, “It just literally was like a gut punch,” adding, “It hurts to know that I may have been targeted by my own community because of the type of gay flag that I’m flying.”

“Targeted by my own community…”

That is how it works in so-called “progressive” politics today. You can faithfully serve the cause of lesbian politics for thirty years and vote for all the “right” people. But show some misplaced allegiance for America by turning the stars and stripes into a gay banner, and you will win the wrath of younger trans activists who are all too happy to send a message of their displeasure by damaging your home.

Being “old-school” radical is not enough. You must be super radical or your own will come for you! Of course, Ms. Hager is not alone here.

There is no one more radical for LGBT causes in California politics than state senator Scott Weiner. He has amassed a long list of troubling anti-family LGBT legislation in the Golden State in his decades as a legislator.

But in June (Pride Month!), CNN reported Sen. Weiner was viciously shouted down by LGBT activists at San Francisco’s annual Trans March, forcing him to leave for his own physical safety. He told CBS News the trans activists “were trying to bully me and intimidate me out of the park and I ended up leaving because it wasn’t safe for me.”

This wholly radical long-time gay activist felt for his physical safety at a major Pride event because, as a Jewish man, he is not as pro-Palestine as younger gay activists believe he should be. So they threatened him in ways that Weiner admitted went beyond free speech.

Christian parents and conservative citizens must realize it’s a fool’s errand to try to appease young activists by moving in their direction ideologically in hopes of building a bridge. We can mistakenly be inclined to do this with our own beloved children or co-workers. Faithful LGBT activists like Tracy Hager and Scott Weiner will affirm that you can never move far enough left for some people.

We must always speak truth in love, being equally full of grace and truth, just like Jesus. Trying to appease radical ideology will always end in frustration and further broken relationships.

Christian Counselor Brian Tingley Wins Free Speech Victory

For the first time in five years, Christian counselor Brian Tingley is free to counsel his clients without fear of legal penalties.

On Thursday, August 13, Washington state agreed not to enforce its counseling censorship law banning so-called “conversion therapy” against Tingley, a significant victory for free speech in the Evergreen State.

“There is an epidemic of mental health issues among young people today,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “They and their parents often come to Brian Tingley because they feel most comfortable with a counselor who shares their faith, yet the state prohibited these voluntary conversations.”

Widmalm-Delphonse added,

We’re pleased Washington has agreed that Mr. Tingley should be free to speak. It will allow young people to get the help they desperately need while his case proceeds.

Tingley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 20 years of experience helping both adult and minor clients. He engages solely in talk therapy: listening to clients, asking them questions and helping them pursue psychological and behavioral changes according to their desires and goals.

As a part of his practice, Tingley helps minor clients struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction and sexual identity confusion.

But in 2018, Washington state passed a law banning “conversion therapy” – prohibiting counselors from assisting clients “become more comfortable with [their] biological sex” or reduce same-sex attractions, thoughts, identities and behaviors.

Tingley fought back in federal court, filing a lawsuit in 2021, seeking to vindicate his constitutional rights. He is represented by attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom.

He argued the state’s law – requiring counselors speak only state-approved messages on homosexuality and transgenderism – violated the First Amendment.

Washington state isn’t the only government entity with such laws on the books; other states and localities have also enacted counseling speech codes. But thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, those laws are on a collision course with the U.S. Constitution.

In March, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Kaley Chiles, a Christian counselor, who sued over Colorado’s counseling censorship law, concluding the law violated the Constitution.

“The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country,” Justice Gorsuch wrote for the majority.

“It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth.”

Since Chiles, counseling censorship laws have fallen like dominoes in various court decisions across the country. The development in Tingley’s case represents yet another victory for Christian counselors.

Thanks to the new agreement, Tingley is now free to contribute to the marketplace of ideas until his case reaches a final settlement. That’s a victory for Tingley, his clients in need of help, and everyone’s free speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

The case is Tingley v. Brown.

If you or someone you know is struggling with homosexuality or transgenderism, Focus on the Family offers a one-time complimentary consultation with our ministry’s professionally trained counseling staff. The consultation is free due to generous donor support.

To reach Focus on the Family’s counseling service by phone, call 1-800-A-Family (232-6459) weekdays 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Mountain Time). Please be prepared to leave your contact information for a counselor or chaplain to return a call to you as soon as possible. Alternatively, you can fill out our Counseling Consultation Request Form.

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