PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (LifeSiteNews) — LGBT identification at a notoriously left-wing Ivy League university has reportedly skyrocketed in recent years, with nearly 40% of students claiming to be something other than heterosexual.
According to a June 24 report by Brown University’s student newspaper, The Brown Daily Herald, 38% of students tracked in the paper’s Spring 2023 poll said they were LGBT. The rate is more than five times the national average and roughly 2.5 times the rate recorded in the school’s Fall 2010 survey.
Of the Brown University students who claimed not to be straight, 22.9% said they were gay or lesbian and 53.7% said they were bisexual.
The student newspaper noted that the percentage of gay or lesbian identification had dropped substantially since the university previously reported student data regarding sexuality in 2010. The report observed that “Students were also more likely to identify with a more diverse range of sexual orientations besides homosexual and bisexual in recent years.”
Additional options provided to the students now include “Asexual,” “Pansexual,” “Queer,” and “Questioning/Unsure.”
The uptick in LGBT identification among college students comes as national rates have similarly climbed in recent years amid the normalization of homosexuality along with the simultaneous denigration of heterosexuality and marriage.
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This isn’t the first time Brown University has made headlines over LGBT controversy.
In 2018, Brown University removed a link to research authored by behavioral scientist Lisa Littman. Her study suggested that social media and peer pressure might be causing teens to think they’re transgender in a phenomenon identified as “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” LifeSiteNews reported at the time.
A spokesman for the university said the decision to withdraw the link was made because of concerns about the study’s methodology, not its controversial findings.
Months later, in March 2019, the university posted a link to a revised version of the study that included “corrections and updates by the study’s author to address concerns raised in the journal’s reassessment.”
In a statement, the Ivy League university reaffirmed its adherence to LGBT ideology (noting it “is proud to be among the first universities to include medical care for gender reassignment in its student health plan, and that our medical school is a leader in education on care for transgender individuals”), while also stating that “[a]cademic freedom and support for the trans community — or any other group — are not mutually exclusive. These values can and, indeed, must co-exist.”
“This faculty member — and, indeed, all Brown faculty members — have the right to conduct research on topics they choose,” the university said. “This is the case even for research that leads them into politically controversial territory. Brown gives its full support to this faculty member to conduct her research and publish her work.”
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Littman’s findings concerning “rapid onset gender dysphoria” have been borne out by record-breaking numbers of LGBT identification among young people in recent years as non-heterosexual lifestyles have become increasingly mainstreamed and applauded.
As LifeSiteNews has reported, drastic spikes in rates of children, young people, and adults claiming to be transgender, non-binary, or any other of the variety of increasingly popular “gender identities” have come amid persistent moves in the cultural and political space to normalize divergent attitudes concerning sexuality.
Recently, even leaders in the transgender medical field have acknowledged that “social contagion” is a factor in rising numbers of trans identification among children and youth.
Available data indicates LGBT identification is strongly stratified by generation. To date, nearly one-in-five Generation Z young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 identify somewhere on the LGBT spectrum compared with 11.2% of millennials and just 3.3% of older adults.