Mick Hartley

A new report shows that trans identity is in decline across US universities. Jo Bartosch at Spiked:

Drawing on surveys of more than 60,000 US undergraduates, the report finds that the share identifying as a gender ‘other than male or female’ peaked at 6.8 per cent in 2023. It has since fallen to 3.6 per cent in 2025, effectively halving in just two years.

The decline is steepest at the elite end of the spectrum, confirming that the trans delusion was always a luxury belief. Within the Ivy League samples, the proportion of students identifying as something other than male or female rose from three per cent in 2021 to seven per cent in 2023, before dropping right back down to three per cent in 2025.

It’s not all over though.

It’s tempting to smirk at the thought of first-year students now cringing their way through mandatory pronoun rituals at the beginning of semester. But there is a serious side to this, too. The ‘trans boom’ will continue to have knock-on implications for decades to come. Many students will shed their identity politics as easily as their septum rings and drift into marketing jobs, but the institutions they leave behind have been intellectually and morally gutted. Women’s sports (vital in the US because of scholarships) have been sabotaged by cheating men and cynical coaches. Single-sex dorms and sororities are now effectively unisex. The atmosphere of intellectual terror, where teaching basic biology could end a lecturer’s career, will take years to dispel.

And there are, of course, those unfortunates sucked in to the gender cult who were persuaded by the social media gods to transition – to take puberty blockers and hormones, to get themselves medically mutilated. They have a lifetime’s suffering ahead of them.

It’s a relief that the trans fad is becoming old news. But now we must ask some adult questions: how did so many intelligent people persuade themselves that humans can be ‘born in the wrong body’? And why did they try to destroy anyone who said otherwise? Growing up means admitting when you were wrong. Now it’s time for universities to learn from their mistakes, ditch the ideology, and return to the principles that once made them great.