Earlier this year, Townhall covered how a poll showed that 28 percent of Generation Z adults claim that they identify as LGBTQ+. This compares to 16 percent of millennials, 7 percent of Generation X, 4 percent of baby boomers and 4 percent of the Silent Generation.
In the same survey, 43 percent of Gen Z adults said they identify as “liberal.” About 36 percent identify as Democrats, while 21 percent say they’re Republicans. Thirty percent of Gen Z adults in the survey said they are Independents.
This week, a Gallup survey found that nearly 30 percent of Gen Z women identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. This current figure is up from 5.6 percent four years ago and 3.5 percent in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity (via Gallup):
Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+. More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26 in 2023, identify as LGBTQ+, as do nearly one in 10 millennials (aged 27 to 42). The percentage drops to less than 5% of Generation X, 2% of baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation.
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Close to three in 10 Gen Z women, 28.5%, identify as LGBTQ+, compared with 10.6% of Gen Z men. Among millennials, 12.4% of women and 5.4% of men have an LGBTQ+ identification.
In its write-up, Gallup noted that in the coming decades, the amount of LGBTQ+ identifiers will likely exceed 10 percent of U.S. adults. In the survey, 7.6 percent of Americans said that they identify as LGBTQ. This is up from last year, when 7.2 percent of Americans identified themselves as members of this community.
In 2022, a shocking study conducted by researchers at UCLA’s Williams Institute claimed that 0.5 percent of all American adults, 1.3 million people, and about 300,000 youth 13 to 17 years old identify as transgender. This means the individual “identifies” with a different gender than the sex they were assigned at birth.
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Despite this, in recent years, those who support the LGBTQ+ movement have claimed that “social contagion” does not have a factor in the amount of young people who identify as gay, transgender, etc.
