Public health crisis:

decrease, or stay the same over time

• Provide data at the national, state, territorial and freely associated state, tribal, and local levels

• Provide data comparing different groups of adolescents

• Monitor progress toward achieving the Healthy People Objectives and other program goals

Based on the ten year span in studies between 2011 and 2021, the CDC reported that the number of students in the U.S. who identify as LGBTQ has increased from 11% in 2015 to 26% in 2021. That increase “might be a result of changes in question wording to include students identifying as questioning,” the report claims.

About 57% of those high school students in the CDC’s data said that they have not had any sexual contact in their lives, while 34.6% of those students said they had sexual contact with someone of the opposite sex.

Just 2.4% of students reported that they’ve had sexual contact with the same sex, and 6% said that they’ve had sexual contact with both sexes, according to the CDC.

Mirroring the CDC numbers in the YRBSS, the results of recent Gallup polling revealed that 7.2% of U.S. adults now identify as LGBTQ+ broken down by age grouping:

-19.7% of Gen Z (ages 19-26)

-11.2% of millennials, (ages 27-42)

-3.3% of Gen X (ages 43-58)

-2.7% of Baby Boomers (ages 59-77)

-1.7% of the Silent Gen (ages 78+)