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.
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.
This week, a new poll found that a staggering amount of young people identify as LGBTQ+, compared to previous generations.
Adults belonging to Generation Z are less likely than previous generations to join an established religion, more likely to identify as LGBTQ+ and are “less likely to be Republican,” a new poll shows.
Gen Z encompasses those born between 1997 and 2012. The survey conducted by Public Religion Research Institute was taken of 6,014 people age 13 and older from Aug. 21 to Sept. 15, 2023.
In the 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.
"Clearly, Gen Z does not like to be labeled, and they're not necessarily wanting to hang their hat with a particular political party these days," PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman told Axios of the findings. Women, specifically, are more likely to identify with Democrats rather than Republicans.
In the survey, about 58% of Gen Z adults (including 74% of Gen Z Democrats) agreed that "we won't be able to solve the country's big problems until the older generation no longer holds power."
Exclusive poll: Gen Z is less religious, less Republican than others https://t.co/Nz9oLaI6EU
— Axios (@axios) January 23, 2024
When it comes to religion, 27 percent said they are “white Christians” and 33 percent said they are “religiously unaffiliated.”
On LGBTQ+ issues, 28 percent of Gen Z adults said 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.
A 2021 Axios poll found that “nearly a quarter of college students wouldn't be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans.”
In the findings, 5 percent of Republicans said they wouldn't be friends with someone from the opposite party, compared to 37% of Democrats. And, 71 percent of Democrats said they would not go on a date with someone with opposing views, compared to 31 percent of Republicans.
