CV NEWS FEED // A newly published Gallup poll indicates that a combined 22.3% of Generation Z (“Gen Z”) adults identify as “LGBTQ+,” including 10.6% of Gen-Z men and a whopping 28.5% of Gen-Z women.
The poll defines “Gen-Z” Americans as those born between the years 1997 and 2012. Since Gallup aggregated its data from telephone surveys conducted in 2023, none of its adult respondents was born after 2005.
According to the poll, the vast majority of “LGBTQ+” Gen-Z adults indicated they are bisexual. In fact, over 15% of the generation’s total adults said they were bisexual.
By comparison, 3.0% said they are lesbians, 2.8% said they are “transgender,” 2.6% said they are gay men, and 1.0% chose an “Other LGBTQ+” option.
The poll found that the vast discrepancy in so-called “LGBTQ+ identity” between young men and women is mainly due to the fact that significantly more Gen-Z women than men say they are bisexual.
Longtime Gallup Senior Editor Jeffrey M. Jones, PhD, wrote Wednesday that “[m]ore than one in five Gen Z women identify as bisexual, as do 9% of millennial women.”
“Gen Z men are more likely to identify as bisexual than as gay, while roughly equal proportions of millennial men identify as bisexual or gay,” Jones added. “Older generations of LGBTQ+ men are most likely to identify as gay.”
Jones also pointed out that Gen Z is not the first generation in which the percentage of “LGBTQ+” women has been more than double that of “LGBTQ+” men.
“Among millennials, 12.4% of women and 5.4% of men have an LGBTQ+ identification,” the Jones wrote. Gallup defines millennial Americans as those born between 1981 and 1996.
Among Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980), 4.7% of women and 3.5% of men identified as “LGBTQ+.”
Among baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964), more men (2.7%) than women (1.9%) identified as such.
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The proportion of total people who say they are “LGBTQ+” has about doubled from one generation to the next since the sexual revolution, according to Gallup’s poll.
While 22.3% of Gen-Z adults said they were LGBTQ+, this percentage was 9.8% for millennials, 4.5% for Gen X, 2.3% for baby boomers, and only 1.1% for living Americans born 1945 or earlier.
The Daily Wire noted that in their poll, “Gallup surveyed about 12,000 Americans aged 18 and up over the phone.”
Again from The Daily Wire:
Critics have also sounded the alarm in recent years about an increasing number of teen girls identifying as transgender and seeking out transgender medical services with permanent effects.
Teen girls are many times more likely to seek out transgender medical services than teen boys, according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
