{"id":2500877,"date":"2025-10-20T07:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-transgender-identities-are-finally-in-freefall\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:39:48","slug":"why-transgender-identities-are-finally-in-freefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-transgender-identities-are-finally-in-freefall\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Transgender Identities Are Finally In Freefall\u00a0"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fwhy-transgender-identities-are-finally-in-freefall%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=2500877&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>The text discusses elon Musk&#8217;s public condemnation of what he calls the &#8220;trans mind virus,&#8221; a term he used to describe transgender ideology as a harmful, widespread influence. Musk shared his personal experience in July 2024, claiming his son was &#8220;killed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-at-its-heart-wokeness-is-divisive-exclusionary-and-hateful\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: \u2018At Its Heart Wokeness Is Divisive, Exclusionary And Hateful\u2019\">woke mind virus<\/a>&#8221; through the practice of &#8220;deadnaming.&#8221; The article portrays transgenderism as a secular religion that spreads through social contagion, affecting millions, including many professionals who lost their objectivity on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>It highlights research by Eric kaufmann, a professor at the University of Buckingham, who analyzed youth surveys and found a important recent decline in young people identifying as transgender or queer between 2020 and 2025.Kaufmann&#8217;s report suggests a &#8220;rise and fall&#8221; pattern, with many youths returning to traditional gender and sexual identities. This trend is attributed in part to changes in mental health, especially depression, and signals a possible end to the &#8220;trans craze.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The text credits various <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >outspoken critics-primarily secular women<\/a> like Kellie-jay Keen, Megyn Kelly, J.K. Rowling, and others, alongside some male figures such as Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk-with speaking out against transgender ideology. It also mentions former President Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-touts-equality-act-in-proclamation-for-pride-month\/\" title=\"Biden Touts Equality Act In Proclamation For Pride Month\">executive order affirming<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-dylan-mulvaney-and-the-collapse-of-the-west\/\" title=\"Joe Biden, Dylan Mulvaney, And The Collapse Of The West\">binary sex distinction<\/a> as part of the pushback.<\/p>\n<p>The overall message is that the transgender movement is losing influence due to increased moral clarity and brave truth-telling, invoking alexander Solzhenitsyn&#8217;s idea that lies will quickly fall away once people refuse to support them. The author calls for readers to join this movement to end what is framed as a harmful ideological &#8220;mind virus.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O081CvGm30M?si=_wuyGos0VaPu1T1Y&amp;t=55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vulnerably told<\/a> the world in July 2024, &ldquo;My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,&rdquo; adding starkly, &ldquo;They call it deadnaming for a reason &hellip; they call it deadnaming because your son is dead.&rdquo; Musk explained this mind virus to Bill Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qFEaTk--tZo?si=GE2VxITU7y_o7u7s&amp;t=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on his show<\/a> more than a year earlier as a psychic spell where &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t question things; even the questioning is bad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This virulent virus fuels the deadly secular religion of transgenderism, a lie founded upon a contra-scientific view of male or female that <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article\/file?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0202330&amp;type=printable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rapidly infected<\/a> millions of young people through social contagion over the last ten years. It caused whole guilds of otherwise well-educated professionals (physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, coaches, sports administrators, athletic associations, politicians, and the media) to lose their collective reason, objectivity, and credibility. We have all seen its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TopSurgery\/comments\/1o24uq9\/i_feel_so_extremely_fucking_attractive_31_days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">horrific effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deception seems to be exhausting itself, and there are now social science findings indicating this. Some are <a href=\"https:\/\/benryan.substack.com\/p\/no-the-data-hasnt-shown-that-transgenderism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contesting<\/a> this new data, but it is worth being mindful of as a notable indicator.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Kaufmann, professor at the U.K.&rsquo;s University of Buckingham and director of the new Centre for Heterodox Social Science, <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/why-are-fewer-young-people-identifying-as-trans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analyzed data<\/a> from several large-scale, high-quality youth surveys and notes a decided shift in American teens and young adults moving away from identifying as either trans or queer.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heterodoxcentre.com\/research\/chss-report-no-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full report<\/a>, entitled &ldquo;The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,&rdquo; documents how the number of young people once identifying as trans or non-binary nearly halved across most data sets over the last two years. In his highly viral <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/epkaufm\/status\/1978074195767480659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X posts<\/a>, Kaufmann stated, &ldquo;trans identification is in free fall among the young.&rdquo; His report notes, &ldquo;In these cases, we see a &lsquo;rise and fall&rsquo; pattern of numbers returning to pre-surge baselines.&rdquo; In other words, this nascent re-establishment of a pre-trans craze equilibrium could be the earliest empirical grave marker of the trans mind virus.<\/p>\n<p>The same was shown to be true for alternative sexualities. While &ldquo;traditional homosexual categories of gay and lesbian remained stable,&rdquo; Kaufmann observed &ldquo;a sharper rise and decline in the share identifying as bisexual and queer&rdquo; as well as &ldquo;questioning&rdquo; and &ldquo;pansexual&rdquo; between 2020 and 2025. This decline was shown in &ldquo;a return to heterosexuality.&rdquo; The observation Bill Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mMBzfUj5zsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">famously made<\/a> that the sudden meteoric rise in these <em>nouveau<\/em> identities was suspect is now documented as true.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufmann charts the dramatic rise and decline in gender and sexual identity this way.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, professor Kaufmann documented a similar devastating anomaly in the &ldquo;LGBTQ is completely natural so get used to it!&rdquo; script in a groundbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cspicenter.com\/p\/born-this-way-the-rise-of-lgbt-as-a-social-and-political-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 paper<\/a>: &ldquo;Whereas in 2008 [sexual identity] attitudes and behavior were similar, by 2021 LGBT <em>identification<\/em> was running at twice the rate of LGBT <em>sexual behavior<\/em>&rdquo; [emphasis added]. Just <em>saying <\/em>one was a <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-meaningless-incoherence-of-lgbtq-d47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meaningless<\/a> &ldquo;LGBTQ person&rdquo; became twice as popular as actually <em>doing<\/em> any of the things those letters supposedly signify.<\/p>\n<p>Again, social contagion at work in a deceptive mind virus.<\/p>\n<p>In his new report, Kaufmann explains, &ldquo;The average peak of non-heterosexuality, in 2023, matches the peak in non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sam-smith-gets-tattoo-of-young-boy-in-underwear-and-heels-looking-in-mirror-as-nod-to-being-non-binary\/\" title=\"Sam Smith Gets Tattoo Of Young Boy In Underwear And Heels Looking In Mirror As Nod To Being \u2018Non...\u2019\">-binary gender identity<\/a> in many of the surveys we have available.&rdquo; He concludes, &ldquo;It appears that trans and queer are going out of fashion among young people, especially in elite settings.&rdquo; Yes, much of the <a href=\"https:\/\/qr.ae\/pCyGJ5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LGBTQQIAAP2S+<\/a> rainbow pride madness we have all been badgered to celebrate every June has indeed been performance art cosplay.<\/p>\n<p>The generational cohort changes in growing non-identity have been sudden and dramatic. Kaufmann states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The fastest declines in BTQ+ identity over 2022-25 took place within the 2025 and 2026 graduating classes with 2027 and 2028 cohorts starting college life at lower BTQ+ levels. To the extent that the youngest represent the leading edge of new trends, this suggests that trans, bisexual and queer identities are declining in popularity with each new cohort.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what is the reason behind this rise in gender and sexual play-acting and its possible dramatic decline? In a tight <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/why-are-fewer-young-people-identifying-as-trans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">write-up<\/a> of his study for UnHerd, Kaufmann explains, &ldquo;My analysis indicates that changes in mental health over time, especially depression, made a significant difference to the trajectory of trans and queer identities over this period.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But something else is certainly at work as well. You cannot sustain a lie for long, and the psychic trans spell is certainly breaking as so many are confidently speaking truth. Curiously, these were not bold Christian leaders. Many acquiesced to silly &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/should-we-exercise-pronoun-hospitality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pronoun hospitality<\/a>.&rdquo; Some <a href=\"https:\/\/reformation21.org\/why-i-no-longer-use-transgender-pronouns-and-why-you-shouldnt-either\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly repented<\/a>, giving others clarity and courage. The stalwart truth tellers were largely secular voices &hellip; and women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-45650462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kellie-Jay Keen<\/a>, the fire-filled Marilyn Monroe clone, boldly exposed the lie in 2018. Megyn Kelly caught Keen&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com\/how-moral-courage-for-truth-is-contagious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contagious courage<\/a> and followed suit. J.K. Rowling fiercely started mocking the psychic madness on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269382518362509313?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 6, 2020<\/a> and has not stopped since. Liberal feminist Kara Danksy truthfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Abolition_of_Sex\/Nf1NEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=dansky,+abolition+of+sex&amp;pg=PT1&amp;printsec=frontcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> transgenderism &ldquo;left-wing misogyny on steroids &hellip; a made-up concept used to justify all kinds of atrocities.&rdquo; Of course, there were also the young and fearless Riley Gaines and Chloe Cole, and author Abigail Shirer, who called it out as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters\/dp\/168451228X\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3UI7WE87NZYVG&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sZxWc_XMXnZExfNdZPgqtrjLJgxzdgx_BY0NlliEoE4TXEWJS0zt0Smn0SBMB0T7atcZCOzEza6PYpOMlB2tsjkR7usjq8XlonXb-_87gfcxT8QSKdG8PbBZJgQizXthExKCgTDLX2_aMWL11EL2lTaWu3O-A52-VzkFpfbiC9OhAWA-Ec7ZiOlZVi-BNOEkuIjaEZNn1eS3ZKCps48NRkKIt9i1ibND9NDboVdaZus.MADU0bSHbfOn6CPazI29YdbGcUhPX4CX4mso-MMTLUk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=abigail+shrier+bad+therapy&amp;qid=1760925268&amp;sprefix=abigain+sh%2Caps%2C152&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;craze&rdquo;<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Men spoke up as well. Billboard Chris <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillboardChris\/status\/1904411432671736122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started asking<\/a> very public questions. Professor Jordan Peterson, early on, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37875695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doggedly refused<\/a> to have his language policed. President Trump gave billions courage and clarity when he signed, on his first day in office, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executiv<\/a>e order establishing a basic fact: &ldquo;It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.&rdquo; And as we saw earlier, Elon Musk publicly denounced the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1978107793262473595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trans mind virus<\/a> and hasn&rsquo;t stopped.<\/p>\n<p>All these are simply following the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solzhenitsyncenter.org\/live-not-by-lies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prescient maxim<\/a> that if we refuse to be &ldquo;witting servants of the lie&rdquo; we will all &ldquo;be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Friends, unapologetic moral clarity spoken with confidence is contagiously empowering. It&rsquo;s certainly what&rsquo;s killing the trans mind virus, and your voice must join the chorus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Glenn T. Stanton is the director of family formation studies at Focus on the Family and the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Myth-Dying-Church-Christianity-Actually\/dp\/1683973054\/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=glenn+t.+stanton%2C+myth+of+the+dying+church&amp;qid=1555530762&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1-fkmrnull\">The Myth of the Dying Church<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said in July 2024, &#8220;My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,&#8221; explaining this &#8216;mind virus&#8217; to Bill Maher over a year earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3705,"featured_media":2500878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/delia-giandeini-Q8urQ8ow7CU-unsplash.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33417,36479,4019],"class_list":["post-2500877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-gender-identity","tag-social-issues","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/delia-giandeini-Q8urQ8ow7CU-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500877","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\/3705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500883,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500877\/revisions\/2500883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}