A student newspaper reported that students identifying as bisexual increased by 232%.
QUICK FACTS:
- Brown University’s student newspaper reported that 38% of students attending the university “do not identify as straight.”
- The information comes from a Brown Daily Herald Spring 2023 poll.
- The numbers are compared to findings from the Fall of 2010, when 14% of poll respondents said they were not straight.
- “Since Fall 2010, Brown’s LGBTQ+ population has expanded considerably. The gay or lesbian population has increased by 26% and the percentage of students identifying as bisexual has increased by 232%,” the newspaper wrote.
- The poll also found that students were more likely to identify with a sexual orientation besides homosexual and bisexual.
- “Students identifying as other sexual orientations within the LGBTQ+ community have increased by 793%,” the paper added.
“RAPID-ONSET GENDER DYSPHORIA”:
- Lisa Littman, from Brown University School of Public Health, published a paper suggesting that younger individuals are experiencing “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.”
- “The onset of gender dysphoria seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe,” the paper stated.
- There may be a correlation between younger generations experiencing gender dysphoria and exposure to the idea through peers, social media, and public pressure.
- According to researcher Eric Kaufmann, sexual behavior does not match the rise in non-straight sexual orientations.
- “If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together,” he told the College Fix, adding that “identity is rising much faster than behavior, indicating that people with occasional rather than sustained feelings of attraction to the opposite sex are increasingly identifying as LGBT.”
BACKGROUND:
- Johns Hopkins University recently erased the term “woman” from the term “lesbian,” instead defining a “lesbian” as a “ non-man attracted to a non-man.”
- The definition was included in the university’s LGBTQ glossary.
- The glossary was later archived after being criticized.
- “The LGBTQ Glossary serves as an introduction to the range of identities and terms that are used within LGBTQ communities, and is not intended to serve as the definitive answers as to how all people understand or use these terms,” a statement read.
- “While the glossary is a resource posted on the website of the Johns Hopkins University Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI); the definitions were not reviewed or approved by ODI leadership and the language in question has been removed pending review,” the statement continued.
