{"id":1512544,"date":"2022-06-12T15:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T19:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512544"},"modified":"2022-06-12T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T19:20:17","slug":"america-has-more-transgender-youth-than-ever-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-has-more-transgender-youth-than-ever-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"America Has More Transgender Youth Than Ever, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerica-has-more-transgender-youth-than-ever-study-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nearly half of the 1.6 million Americans who identify as transgender are teenagers or young adults, and some of the highest rates of youth transgenderism occur in blue states, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/publications\/trans-adults-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> that transgenderism rates varied between states, with New York seeing a 3% rate among youth compared to roughly 0.6% in Wyoming. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/transgender-crimes-murder-abuse-prison-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Men Keep Committing Heinous Crimes, Then Identifying As Women After Being Arrested. The Media Is Playing Along)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The percent of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/02\/jasper-indiana-dubois-drag-show-all-ages-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youth<\/a> who identify as transgender had doubled since its last estimate, while transgenderism in adults had remained stable. Nearly a fifth of the total transgender population is aged 13-17, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>The states with the highest proportions of transgender youth were Democrat-led and generally more <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/teachers-gender-ideology-transgender-nonbinary-schools-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permissive<\/a> of classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation, such as New York, where state education guidance <a href=\"https:\/\/siecus.org\/state_profile\/new-york-state-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">includes<\/a> instructions on teaching about sexuality and gender identity. New York has nearly double the national rate of youth transgenderism, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>In Maryland, where Education Department officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2022\/06\/03\/schools-gender-identity-transgender-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">included<\/a> gender identity in state sex ed standards, 2.08% of youths identified as transgender, compared to the 1.43% national average. However, not all teachers necessarily include gender identity in their lessons, one of the standard writers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2022\/06\/03\/schools-gender-identity-transgender-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Education and regional politics do not fully account for regional differences in transgender prevalence: the Southeast has a higher prevalence of youth transgenderism than the West and Midwest. Florida, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/ron-desantis-signs-parental-rights-in-education-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned<\/a> classroom instruction on gender and sexuality for kindergarten through third grade, has a 1.32% rate of youth transgenderism, barely below the national average.<\/p>\n<p>California law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-05-11\/california-takes-opposite-path-of-florida-texas-on-inclusive-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requires<\/a> schools to teach students about transgenderism and various sexual orientations, according to the Los Angeles Times, but its 1.93% youth transgenderism rate is still considerably lower than New York\u2019s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7448516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7448516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person holds up a flag during rally to protest the Trump administration\u2019s reported transgender proposal to narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth, at City Hall in New York City, U.S., October 24, 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some commentators and medical professionals have suggested that the surging rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/ron-desantis-florida-sex-change-transgender-health-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transgenderism<\/a> among youth are the result of social contagion. Erica Anderson, a transgender psychologist who works with transgender children, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/14\/transgender-psychologist-erica-anderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> that social media is largely to blame and compared the trend with past waves of eating disorders among youths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo flatly say there couldn\u2019t be any social influence in formation of gender identity flies in the face of reality,\u201d Anderson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2022-04-12\/a-transgender-psychologist-reckons-with-how-to-support-a-new-generation-of-trans-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the LA Times in April. \u201cTeenagers influence each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/ron-desantis-florida-sex-change-transgender-health-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youths<\/a> aged 13-17 are much more likely to identify as transgender when compared to adults aged 65 or older, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of the 1.6 million Americans who identify as transgender are teenagers or young adults, and some of the highest rates of youth transgenderism occur in blue states, according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}