A new survey released by Brown University’s student newspaper stunningly shows that 40% of the students attending the elite ivy league school now identify as LGBTQ+, indicating that social pressures are radically altering the way people view their sexual orientation.

The Brown Daily Herald reported that between 2010 and 2023, students identifying as LGBTQ+ has nearly tripled among the student body at the school. It went from 14% in 2010 to 38% currently.

“The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate,” the paper noted. “Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ identification has increased across the nation, with especially sharp growth at Brown.”

The outlet went on to report that other sexual orientations have seen a massive jump as well.

“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 student newspaper reported. “Students identifying as other sexual orientations within the LGBTQ+ community have increased by 793%.”

LGBTQ+ student self-identification has doubled at #BrownUniversity since 2010, according to Herald polling data – The Brown Daily Herald https://t.co/VdtE5r5dyD

— howardfineman (@howardfineman) July 10, 2023

“The idea of LGBT identification as a social contagion is one that continues to draw criticism among academics. For example, the head of an academic journal that published a paper that supported the theory of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria faced a cancellation attempt, along with the Northwestern University professor who wrote the paper,” the Washington Examiner pointed out.

“Coincidentally, Dr. Lisa Littman, who popularized the idea of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, once taught at Brown University before being forced out over the controversy,” the media outlet also claimed.

Littman made the cogent argument that peer pressure is fundamental to what is going on with transgenderism.

The interesting question is whether this is social contagion of internalized beliefs or external representation to express significance within the social order.

— Dakara (@dakara_prisoner) July 10, 2023

“Dr. Littman argued that some girls who identified as transgender were doing so due to peer pressure from within their social circles. The 38% identification tracks with research from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which found similar levels among elite colleges. The researcher on that project, Eric Kaufmann, noted in comments to the College Fix that his research has found sexual behavior has not kept pace with the identification,” the Washington Examiner recounted.

“If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together,” Kaufman stated. “What we find instead is 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.”

It appears that individuals are more likely to identify as bisexual because it’s cool than engage in actual bisexual activity.

It’s like a fad, everyone with no life, self-respect or is just miserable joins to fit in. A clique of TikTokkers. How sad.

— Stewie Griffin (@StewGriffin52) July 10, 2023

Brown, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and was founded a dozen years before the American Revolution began, ranks as the seventh-oldest college or university in the US. It stood at No. 13 in a ranking of the nation’s four-year universities in 2021 as reported by US News & World Report. Tuition, fees, housing, and other costs reportedly total nearly $90,000 a year.

A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that 7.2% of US adults identify as something other than heterosexual, double the rate of a decade ago. Nearly 21% of Generation Z adults – those born after 1997 – now identify as LGBT.

It has become trendy to identify as anything but heterosexual and the move is ostensibly being fueled by social media. This is especially true when it comes to young people as one of the nation’s most prestigious schools demonstrates.

Twitter sounded off concerning the shocking trend at Brown University:

Pride begets the fall. pic.twitter.com/cmvmPQ58pT

— Lords Of War (@lordsofwar_life) July 10, 2023

What???? That’s crazy!

— Mrs. Right (@Mrs_Right_Again) July 10, 2023

Ok let’s scratch Brown off my kids’ lists.

— SmilinJim (@JamesWitmer6) July 10, 2023

Wow. That’s really messed up.

— abdesam (@arlene8022) July 10, 2023

Suggests to me social media and teachers/professors pushing it more to me. They can’t tell you anything about American History with HS diploma but students as young as 8 know they are LGBT or need a gender change in the second grade now.

— John Castel (@JBB4768) July 10, 2023

All the cool kids are doing it.

— Judy Smith (@JudySmi17685209) July 10, 2023

I have noticed that a large % of that demographic is completely straight, but they go around identifying as “non binary” so they can eat their cake and have it too. Technically makes them LGBT, but most of them are straight and have no intention of actually being another gender.

— HelloMrSmith (@HelloMrSmith) July 10, 2023

being a member alphabet group is the only way to get preferred treatment at leftist universities so of course everyone claims it

— Michael Lee (@mlee70) July 10, 2023

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