Support for the LGBTQ+ lifestyle is in free fall: Poll



The cultural obsession with — and corresponding private-public support for — all things non-heterosexual is waning, having apparently reached its zenith sometime earlier this decade.

New Gallup polling shows that support for homosexual "marriage," non-straight relations, and so-called transgenderism is collapsing.

'Those pro-LGBTQ+ attitudes peaked about five years ago.'

Whereas in 2023, 71% of American adults said that homosexual "marriages" should be valid — up from 27% in 1996 — that number has since dropped to 65%.

After reaching an all-time high in 2022 of 71%, the percentage of U.S. adults who regard homosexual relations as "morally acceptable" fell to 62% this year, the lowest it has been in a decade. This decline shows no signs of stopping.

Gallup started asking Americans in 2021 whether "changing one's gender is morally acceptable." That year, 46% of respondents said "yes," but this year, only 38% of Americans said the same.

Just 5% of Republicans and 42% of independents said that "changing one's gender" is morally acceptable.

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The polling outfit credited Republicans with the declining support for the LGBT agenda, noting that some of the most drastic changes in attitude regarding non-straight issues have taken place on the right.

In 2022, for instance, 55% of Republicans said that they support legal homosexual "marriage," but over the past four years, that number has plummeted 18 percentage points.

Independents are similarly pumping the brakes on the rainbow train, with their support for same-sex "marriage" having fallen six percentage points.

While Democrats predominantly remain on board with the LGBT agenda, there are some signs of fatigue. This year, 81% said that homosexual relations are morally acceptable — down five points from 2025 — and 60% signaled support for transgenderism, down seven points since 2021.

"For about two decades, Americans grew more accepting of LGBTQ+ people and more supportive of their civil rights," said Gallup. "However, those pro-LGBTQ+ attitudes peaked about five years ago and have since edged downward, mostly among Republicans."

Coinciding with the change in attitude about non-straight issues, there has been a precipitous decline in the proportion of students identifying as "transgender" and "non-heterosexual," as detailed in a study last year from the University of Buckingham's Centre for Heterodox Social Science.

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Activist judges overruled: Trump judges greenlight Hegseth’s ban on military 'dudes in dresses'



U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration's immigration policy — decided in March to indefinitely block the enforcement of the second Trump administration's ban on transvestites in the military, suggesting it likely violated their constitutional rights.

Reyes, formerly of the Feminist Majority Foundation, suggested in her March 18 ruling that the "Military Ban is soaked in animus" and that it was her responsibility as a judge to keep the executive branch at heel, despite acknowledging the "pernicious" nature of judicial overreach.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed the administration a big win: a 2-1 decision staying Reyes' order and greenlighting enforcement of the ban.

'We're done with that s**t.'

Citing the Supreme Court's June 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee's ban on sex-rejecting genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors, U.S. Circuit Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao — both appointed by President Donald Trump — ruled that War Secretary Pete Hegseth's ban on trans-identifying military members likely did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause or trigger any form of heightened scrutiny.

"In Skrmetti, the Supreme Court held that a law prohibiting the use of hormones to treat gender dysphoria in minors 'classifies on the basis of medical use' and thus does not discriminate based on either sex or transgender status," Katsas wrote for the majority. "The same reasoning would seem to cover the Hegseth Policy, which classifies based on the medical condition of gender dysphoria."

Even if the policy contained a classification triggering some form of heightened scrutiny, Katsas emphasized that "decades of precedent establish that the judiciary must tread carefully when asked to second-guess considered military judgments of the political branches."

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Katsas noted further that the policy was "likely constitutional because it reflects a considered judgment of military leaders and furthers legitimate military interests," such as cost issues, unit cohesion, and military readiness.

Trump noted in his Jan. 27 executive order titled "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness":

Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false "gender identity" divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.

The Pentagon subsequently released guidance stating that "military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service," and took steps to begin giving those with gender dysphoria the boot.

Katsas suggested that Reyes' claim that the Pentagon's policy did not advance legitimate interests was more or less baseless — that she:

  • "gave no sound reason for overriding the Secretary's considered judgment";
  • premised her claim that "medical studies now overwhelmingly conclude that gender dysphoria is highly treatable" on a "declaration from one doctor who simply stated, in one sentence and without citations, that 'gender dysphoria is highly treatable'"; and
  • "downplayed evidence of greater mental-health issues faced by transgender individuals."
The court also rejected Reyes' suggestion that the policy is rooted in animus against transvestites, noting that she "looked beyond the Hegseth Policy itself to derive animus from various statements made by the President or other officials" — an approach the Supreme Court has previously rejected.

The dissenting judge on the panel, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, lashed out at her colleagues, claiming in a 27-page dissent — which reads like a work of LGBT activist literature — that the majority's decision "makes it all but inevitable that thousands of qualified servicemembers will lose careers they have built over decades, drawn up short by a policy that would repay their commitment and service to our nation with detriment and derision."

"The majority grants this stay in the face of all evidence to the contrary," continued U.S. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard. "We should not accord deference to the military when the Department itself carelessly relied on no more than blatant animus."

According to Pillard, the Pentagon's decision to oust gender-dysphoric individuals from the military was "based on nothing more than negative attitudes about transgender identity."

She also clutched pearls about various comments from elements of the Trump administration, including War Secretary Pete Hegseth's May 6 remarks stating, "No more dudes in dresses; we're done with that s**t."

"Because the Hegseth Policy is openly fueled by animus towards transgender people and defendants have not shown that it is based on military considerations, it fails even the most deferential form of equal protection review," wrote Pillard.

Following the appellate court's ruling, Hegseth shared a cartoon to social media depicting him kicking a bearded man in a dress out of the Department of War. The transvestite depicted in the cartoon is holding a box containing a book titled "DEI Military" and an LGBT flag.

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'Trans' fad is dying out among American youth, and straightness is ascendant: Study



A new study from the University of Buckingham's Centre for Heterodox Social Science suggests that gender ideology is falling out of favor and the sex-change regime's supply of potential young victims might be drying up.

Citing data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's annual campus surveys of undergraduate students — FIRE polled over 60,000 this year — and several institution-level surveys of young Americans, study author Dr. Eric Kaufmann indicated that "the share of young people not identifying as male or female (typically ticking the non-binary or questioning options) has declined substantially since its 2022-23 peak."

'The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend.'

One of the institutional-level student surveys Kaufmann looked at, the survey conducted annually at the Boston-area Andover Phillips Academy, showed a drop from over 9% of all respondents identifying as "non-binary" in 2023 to 3% total this year.

FIRE survey data and Brown University student survey data similarly showed declines in the share of self-identified "non-binary" respondents — from 6.8% to 3.6% of the total in the first case, and a drop from roughly 5% to 2.6% in the second case.

While the homosexual cohort has remained relatively stable, in the 3-5% range, Andover Phillips data indicated that there has been a rebound in the share of students who identify as straight.

This rebound was similarly reflected in the FIRE data — which indicates that straightness dropped from 80% in 2020 to 68% in 2023, but now sits around 77% — as well as in the General Social Survey's findings, which reportedly indicated that straightness fell from 95% in 2010 to 71% in 2022, then rose to 81% last year.

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Meanwhile, the category of self-identified bisexuals, which increased from 10% to 17% between 2020 and 2023, has dropped to 12%, according to the Andover Phillips data.

The category for "queer and other" sexual identities, which had jumped from 7% in 2020 to 17% in 2023, has since fallen to 12% of the total.

FIRE data indicates that the "queer and other" sexuality category has fallen from 15% in 2023 to 8%.

Kaufmann suggested that "it appears that trans and queer are going out of fashion among young people, especially in elite settings," and that the freshman 2028 cohort "was less likely than older students in 2025 to identify as BTQ+."

"To the extent that the youngest represent the leading edge of new trends, this suggests that trans, bisexual and queer identities are declining in popularity with each new cohort," Kaufmann added.

The professor indicated that the decline in non-straight identification "does not appear to be the result of a shift to the right, the return of religion, or a rejection of woke culture war attitudes."

Kaufmann suggested on X that "the fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health played a role."

Gender ideologues appear to be everywhere losing their battle against common sense and the well-being of young Americans.

For instance, a recent Gallup poll indicated that 66% of American adults think people should be required to list their real sex on government documents and that 69% believe medical transvestites should play on sports teams with members of their own sex.

Pew Research Center polling shows that a majority of Americans now support bans on child sex-change procedures — bans of the kind now in effect in a majority of U.S. states.

This rebuke of the sex-change regime, which is also taking a beating from the Trump administration, appears to be pan-generational. Data published by the Public Religion Research Institute in May indicates that support for so-called "gender-affirming care" has also plummeted among younger Americans. For instance, 66% of young men ages 18-29 think that sex-change interventions, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, should be illegal in most or all cases.

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The Catholic Diocese of Des Moines has taken a significant stand against woke ideology and LGBT activism. As of Monday, the southwestern Iowa diocese — headed by 60-year-old Bishop William M. Joensen — will be enforcing new rules in 17 schools, four Catholic hospitals, and 80 parishes, thereby buttressing old common sense and enraging radical leftists.

New rules

The diocese's "Gender Identity Guide and Policies" document sets out seven policies, all binding for diocesan parishes, schools, organizations, and other institutions of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Des Moines. They do not apply, however, to passersby, occasional vendors, and others who "may be on church-related premises who are not acting in an official capacity."

The rules are as follows:

  • All documentation that requires the designation of a person's sex must reflect the person's real biological sex. So-called "preferred pronoun[s]" are not permitted, since the embrace of made-up pronouns, "while intended as an act of charity, instead promotes the disassociation of biological sex and 'gender' and thereby confuses or denies personal integrity."
  • All persons must use the bathroom or locker room that matches their biological sex. However, buildings are permitted to have individual-use bathrooms.
  • "All persons are to ordinarily present themselves in a manner consistent with their God-given dignity." This rule primarily pertains to uniform dress, whereby girls are to wear girls' uniforms and boys are to wear boys' uniforms in schools.
  • With the exception of co-ed sports, males are to play in male sports and females are to play in female sports. There is to be no crossover.
  • Single-sex schools, buildings, and other programs or institutions (e.g., women's shelters) are restricted to members of the designated sex.
  • Kids aren't allowed to take "puberty blockers" on parish or school property, and "medications for the purpose of gender reassignment" cannot be distributed or stored on site.
  • Counsel given to vulnerable persons afflicted with gender dysphoria will be in "accord with the directives and teachings of the Church."
The Diocese of Des Moines made clear that those who disagree with these practices can leave: "We acknowledge their freedom of conscience to withdraw or absent themselves from situations they find objectionable. Concomitantly, they must likewise respect the Church's mission to witness to truths accessible to reason and faith if they are to fully participate in our faith communities, including our Catholic schools."
The diocese told KCCI that these policies are "part of a lengthy process ... to address questions that have come forth by leaders in [their] parishes and schools."

Old wisdom

While the rules stand in the face of LGBT conventions and social constructivist illogic, the diocese's policy document makes clear that it "fervently hopes that all persons experiencing gender dysphoria know what the Catholic Church tirelessly affirms, that they are unconditionally loved by Jesus Christ and by the Church, and that they are vital members of the Body of Christ who have a home in the family of God."

The church may love them unconditionally, but it evidently can do without their made-up pronouns and leftist customs.

The new guidelines underscore how "any response that merely ratifies and reinforces the perceived disconnect between biological sex and gender-affiliation is not genuine compassion."

Instead of mutilating or conferring puberty blockers to children afflicted with gender dysphoria, parents are instructed to "genuinely assist the child by acknowledging the suffering involved and to accompany him or her along the path to personal healing, self-acceptance, integration, and peace."

"Integration" entails understanding that the "human person is a body-soul union, and the body—as created male or female—is an essential aspect of the human person. There is a complex reality tied to the sex of a person involving the physical (i.e., in the gonads and other evident characteristics), psychological, and social constituents. A healthy person is one in whom these dimensions are integrated."

The diocese and the Catholic Church reject LGBT activists' proposed alternative to integration.

"The Catholic Church teaches that the disruption of normal sexual development, or more dramatically, the removal or destruction of healthy sexual and reproductive organs, is a type of 'mutilation' that is medically and morally harmful," the document states. "Procedures, surgeries, and therapies designed to assist a person in 'transitioning' his or her gender are morally prohibited."

The document references Scripture as justification for this and other claims, but also Pope Francis' indication that "biological sex and the socio-cultural role of sex (gender) can be distinguished but not separated."

Faddish outrage

Democratic state Senator Claire Celsi expressed her outrage that the Catholic Church in Iowa would stand by its values.

Celsi tweeted, "Diocese of Des Moines codifies ostracism of transgender kids. These schools want public dollars and want to treat kids in a way that might cause them to commit suicide. This is not what Jesus would do."

The Democrat state senator suggested that the purpose of the new policies was to "implicitly exclude LGBTQ students and staff."

Celsi has a track record of ridiculing the church and suggesting that Catholics whose politics she finds disagreeable are un-Christian.

Celsi recently suggested that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's busing of illegal aliens to sanctuary cities puts his faith in doubt. She also lambasted a Catholic school for asking a teacher to remove an LGBT activist flag from a classroom.

The Daily Mail reported that the leftist Interfaith Alliance of Iowa slammed the diocese's policies as "dangerous," claiming they advanced "bigotry" towards transsexuals in the state.

Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy for the LGBT activist group One Iowa, suggested that the diocese's policies sound "like conversion therapy," despite the rules preventing children from undergoing transsexual conversion therapy on diocesan property.

Courtney Reyes, also an activist at One Iowa, said, "You cannot pretend to be compassionate while mis-gendering people and denying them access to any and all spaces under your control."

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