{"id":87307,"date":"2026-10-09T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87307"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:32:19","slug":"teens-who-identify-as-gay-plunges-in-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/teens-who-identify-as-gay-plunges-in-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens Who Identify As Gay Plunge In Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Washington Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KHW6HHNLEFHULGRD7YLGG5TQW4\" data-el=\"text\">Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text subtype-from-the-source\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RCHVEGBRVBFX3GKY6TTWUIXCGQ\" data-el=\"text\">The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.generationtechblog.com\/p\/identifying-as-lgb-is-in-free-fall\" rel=\"\">Generation Tech<\/a>.\u201d<\/span> In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87309,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307\/revisions\/87309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}