thanks for providing this itneresting new piece of the puzzle. I'm wondering though what you think about the SEGM piece. you write that nonbinary identification "is not just in free fall among elite college students – it’s also in free fall in nationally representative samples of middle and high school students." This suggests that you do not believe the American College Health Association data cited in the SEGM piece, which show non-binary identification as plateauing but not in free fall. I'm curious what you think about that data and also about the SEGM piece's speculations about the differing picture suggested by the data you previously reported and the ACHA data. Have you addressed these issues elswwhere?
So interesting. Now there is room to more thoughtfully explore how much "trending" issues on social media are truly impacting people, particularly youth. That's a biggie. On a lighter note, I'm hearing tattoos are going the same way (trend is to get rid of them now)--although obviously those don't have at all the same impact in terms of mental health and well being issues. Still I can't help but feel how irritated I would be if I invested $, time (and skin) into creating an ideal "unique" image that reflected what I saw online only to be told, now it's time to get rid of them-- which is super costly, painful and can take 10-20 sessions to remove. All for a trend.
Praise Jesus, sanity is returning!
And now to the real question: what's changed?
Good!
Typo? "The results were unambiguous. Across all three grade levels, identifying as nonbinary plummeted between 2022 and 2014"
2014 -> 2024?
Thanks so much for catching that! I have corrected it.
thanks for providing this itneresting new piece of the puzzle. I'm wondering though what you think about the SEGM piece. you write that nonbinary identification "is not just in free fall among elite college students – it’s also in free fall in nationally representative samples of middle and high school students." This suggests that you do not believe the American College Health Association data cited in the SEGM piece, which show non-binary identification as plateauing but not in free fall. I'm curious what you think about that data and also about the SEGM piece's speculations about the differing picture suggested by the data you previously reported and the ACHA data. Have you addressed these issues elswwhere?
So interesting. Now there is room to more thoughtfully explore how much "trending" issues on social media are truly impacting people, particularly youth. That's a biggie. On a lighter note, I'm hearing tattoos are going the same way (trend is to get rid of them now)--although obviously those don't have at all the same impact in terms of mental health and well being issues. Still I can't help but feel how irritated I would be if I invested $, time (and skin) into creating an ideal "unique" image that reflected what I saw online only to be told, now it's time to get rid of them-- which is super costly, painful and can take 10-20 sessions to remove. All for a trend.