by Larry Sand
The transgender fad may or may not be declining, but it still prevails in schools.
Fads aren’t always harmful. Hula hoops, goldfish swallowing, and flagpole sitting have come and gone and were generally not toxic. In the 1970s, various eating disorders became the rage, but they were viewed as severe mental health problems.
Today, however, bulimia and anorexia are long in the rearview and have been replaced by gender dysphoria, which is fueled by zealots who have a self-righteous and deeply misguided agenda. This fad has been in vogue for several years now and continues to be, though details about its strength are mixed.
An analysis of campus surveys by Eric Kaufmann from the Center for Heterodox Social Science found that the number of college students identifying as transgender decreased by 50% between 2023 and 2025. On a similar note, psychologist Jean Twenge’s analysis of the annual Cooperative Election Study, conducted by YouGov, found that transgender identification among 18- to 22-year-olds dropped by nearly 50% between 2022 and 2024. She concludes that “it looks like the peak of trans identification is in the past.”
However, a recently released report from the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine presents a different picture. Using data from the larger National College Health Assessment, the report reveals that transgender and “nonbinary” identification among U.S. college students is at an all-time high—ranging from 4.7% to 6.7%—although it may be leveling off.
Also, the immensely profitable transgender movement is set to expand, according to Market Research Future. The business consultancy asserts that the “Gender Dysphoria Market Industry” is quite healthy and expected to grow from $13.93 billion in 2025 to $63.53 billion by 2032.
The reality, as noted by UCLA’s Williams Institute, an LGBTQ advocacy group, is that 99.4% of the population lacks the physical traits that cause someone to become transgender. The 0.6% of the adult population who experience gender dysphoria—a condition that causes significant distress—certainly deserve empathy and respect.
Additionally, Brown University physician and researcher Lisa Littman published a study in 2018 indicating that “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” in young people might be influenced by social and peer contagion. She emphasizes that nearly 70% of teenagers were part of a peer group where at least one friend identified as transgender.
Nevertheless, the trans phenomenon persists, and our schools are at the forefront of the fad.
The Los Angeles Unified School District may be the nation’s leader of the movement. District policy allows children to socially transition their genders at school without informing their parents. They can also use school facilities such as locker rooms and restrooms, and participate in sports that align with their gender identity.
LAUSD’s elementary sex education program includes “sex assigned at birth, gender, and sexual identity” and “gender identity, gender expression, and transgender” as part of the elementary Positive Prevention Plus curriculum. All this aligns with state standards that teach gender as part of fifth-grade health classes. Still, gender ideology content outside of sex education can begin much earlier and be more extensive.
At LAUSD, August is branded as “Inclusive Back to School.” As part of this program, the school district offers a wide range of resources, including “Welcoming Schools: Defining LGBTQ Words For Elementary Students.” LAUSD also provides supplementary lessons for the initiative, including “Names and Pronouns,” which emphasizes the importance of affirmed names and pronouns, and “Gender Roles,” which includes a slide from an organization suitably called Gender Spectrum showing a male and a female student escaping their respective gender boxes.
But the wackiness is hardly limited to Los Angeles. In Seattle, schools launched a program earlier this year in partnership with Seattle Children’s Hospital to provide “gender-affirming” products like chest binders, TransTape, nipple guards, and tucking underwear to middle and high school students for use at their discretion, according to recently obtained internal documents.
In Montgomery County, MD, the school board promotes gender transitioning while supporting a “child-knows-best” approach to social transitioning. The books they recommend tell students that their decision to transition to another gender doesn’t have to “make sense” and, astonishingly, that physicians in the delivery room guess newborn babies’ sexual identity.
The totalitarian trans mob won’t tolerate any opposition to its dogma. In Massachusetts, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling in a case where a 7th-grade student was told he couldn’t wear a T-shirt that said, “There are only two genders.” As a result, the administrators at John T. Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, MA, were allowed to tell 12-year-old Liam Morrison to take off his shirt because it was considered “offensive to gender-expansive youth.”
The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear it in May.
Importantly, too many doctors have succumbed to the fad. As their gender clinic became busier with patients, University of California, San Francisco medical directors Maddie Deutsch and Stephen Rosenthal acknowledged that research supporting child sex changes was “shoddy” and fueling “predatory practices,” emails show.
In the real world, there are only two sexes, and this is true for both the plant and animal kingdoms. An organism’s sex is determined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) it produces. Males produce sperm, the smaller gametes; females produce ova, the larger ones. Since no other types of gametes exist, there are only two sexes. Sex is binary. Period.
The trans craze has spread through social contagion for some time now, and we are still feeling its harmful effects. It will fade eventually, but who knows what the next all-encompassing fad will be? I shudder to think.
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Larry Sand, a retired 28-year classroom teacher, is the president of the nonprofit California Teachers Empowerment Network—a
nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to providing teachers
and the public with reliable, balanced information about professional
affiliations and educational issues. The views expressed here are
entirely his own.
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/12/the-gender-totalitarians-are-still-with-us/
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