Teens These Days Are Queer AF, New Study Says

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Teens These Days Are Queer AF, New Study Says

by Zing Tsjeng  MAR 10 2016 3:50 PM

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/teens-these-days-are-queer-af-new-study-says

A new survey of young Americans aged 13 to 20 years old (also known, in marketing-speak, as "Generation Z") has found that they are far more open-minded and permissive than their older millennial counterparts when it comes to issues of gender and sexuality.

According to a report by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group, only 48 percent of Gen Zs identify as exclusively heterosexual, compared to 65 percent of millennials aged 21 to 34.

On a scale of zero to six, where zero signified "completely straight" and six meant "completely homosexual," more than a third of the young demographic chose a number between one and five, indicating that they were bisexual to some degree. Only 24 percent of their older counterparts identified this way.

Fifty-six percent of 13-to-20-year-olds said that they knew someone who went by gender neutral pronouns such as "they," "them," or "ze," compared to 43 percent of people aged 28 to 34 years old. Over a third of Gen Z respondents also strongly agreed that gender did not define a person as much as it used to. This figure dropped to 23 percent among millennials who were 28 and up.

[Tessa James]

Hope springs eternally

[IdontEven]

Yep, this next generation just doesn't care about people's gender/sexuality as far as I can tell. Certainly not the way past generations have.

My cousin and I (both in our 30s) were talking about the sort of stuff that would've gotten us beaten up in gradeschool and how those same things are not only not a big deal among kids these days, but you're seen as kind of a dick for giving someone a hard time about it.

Granted it varies a bit based on location, but that seems to be the general trend. The one thing that worries me is the way the generation that brought us hippies became pretty much as conservative as their parents. People seem to grow more conservative as they age. But as Tessa said, hope springs eternal

[Devlyn]

I'm about ready for a rocking chair. But I've been telling people for awhile "These kids aren't facing what we did. Stop telling them scary stories about the world because they're looking at you like you're crazy."

[KarlMars]

So I hope this means we'll get more trans/gay rights completed faster because this generation will be voting, and possibly doing activism and influencing others who are not open minded. I love that the human race is getting more complicated.