ALMOST 40% OF IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ

Tue 11 July 2023:

Nearly four out of ten students at Brown University, one of the most famous universities in America, now identify as LGBTQ sexual orientations, which has increased over the past ten years.

The Brown Daily Herald, a newspaper for an Ivy League campus, conducted a poll last month and discovered that 38% of students now identify as LGBTQ. In 2010, the first year for which data were available, that compared to 14%.

Most of the surge has come in the past three years. In fact, nearly 80% of students still identified as heterosexual as recently as 2019. A Washington Examiner report on Sunday suggested that Brown’s jump in LGBTQ identification reflected a “social contagion” – rather than a dramatic shift in the student body’s sexual orientations or a sudden rise in confidence to openly express LGBTQ identities.

Lisa Littman, a gender-dysphoria researcher who was formerly an assistant professor at Brown, has argued that some young people identify as transgender because of peer pressure. A study last year by the US Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology found LGBTQ identification rates ranging from 51% to 70% at three of America’s most elite private liberal arts schools: Oberlin, Wellesley, and Smith colleges.

Eric Kaufmann, a researcher for the think tank, told the College Fix that sexual behavior hasn’t shifted at the same pace as sexual identification. “If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together,” he claimed.

Brown, located in Providence, Rhode Island and founded a dozen years before the American Revolution began, ranks as the seventh-oldest college or university in the US. It stood at No. 13 in a ranking of the nation’s four-year universities by US News & World Report. Tuition, fees, housing, and other costs total nearly $90,000 a year.

According to the survey, there was a 25% decrease in heterosexual identify at the school between 2010 and 2023. Homosexual identifications climbed 26%, while the number of students identifying as bisexual more than tripled. ‘Other’ LGBTQ identifications soared 793%.

More LBGTQ people identify at Brown than there are nationwide. 7.2% of US individuals, double the rate of a decade ago, according to a Gallup survey conducted earlier this year, identify as anything other than heterosexual. LGBTQ identity is reported by about 21% of so-called Generation Z adults, or people born after 1997.

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