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If transgenderism is a naturally occurring biological phenomenon, it should be evenly distributed across the population, instead the latest demographic report from a UCLA sexuality institute that uses CDC numbers shows that more than half of the ‘transgender’ population is under 24.

The Williams Institute at UCLA law school broke down transgender demographics to find that 54% of the ‘transgender’ population was under 24 years old.

Even more revealingly, the percentages fall sharply as ages rise and rise even more intensely as ages drop. After 25, transgenderism falls off a cliff, nearly disappears after 35 (and hardly exists for those over 65, sorry Admiral Rick Levine) but rises sharply the younger the teens get with the highest percentages of transgender identification kicking in among teens 13 to 17.

A quarter of the ‘transgender’ population is between 13 and 17 years old. There are more teens in that age range who claim to be ‘transgender’ than the total ‘transgender’ population over 35.

According to the UCLA report, 724,000 “youth” now identify as ‘transgender’.

If 25% of the ‘transgender’ population falls within 5 years, there’s either something in the water or something in the culture. And if there were something in the water, we’d all be drinking it. What is unique about teens in that age range is that they spend much of their time in classrooms and on specific social media platforms like TikTok that promote this identity.

There’s nothing organic about numbers like these. They are not the result of any biological phenomenon, but are a manufactured social contagion that intensely targets teens. They are certainly not the result of pseudoscientific nonsense like “being born in the wrong body”, but of high pressure tactics practiced on social media and in educational settings promoting a transgender identity to troubled teens as the answer to their emotional and social problems.

To understand why ‘transgenderism’ became a phenomenon requires looking not at biology or genetics, but at the cultural influences that teens are subject to that the rest of us are not.

Revealingly, the numbers for teen ‘transgenderism’ come out of the school system.

The Biden administration added the transgender question to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey as a mandatory question for high school students. The CDC’s question was deliberately worded in an ambiguous way to maximize responses, asking teens “some people describe themselves as transgender when their sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about their gender”. (The question should be removed from the CDC’s survey.) The question does not ask teenage boys if they believe they’re girls or teenage girls if they believe themselves to be boys because that would reduce the number of affirmative responses.

The CDC’s transgender question is itself an example of grooming, defining transgenderism in a softer way that encourages teens struggling with themselves to identify that way. But the CDC’s survey question is really trying to measure the effects of educational indoctrination on identity. And then feeds it back by urging schools to protect student “mental health” by creating “safe spaces” and “inclusive clubs” for “LGBTQ” students to promote transgender identity.

How reliable are the CDC’s survey numbers? The CDC’s questionnaire went to 20,000 students. Many states, including Florida, Mississippi, Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho did not participate, so sizable parts of the country were screened out. Worse still, LA and San Francisco were declared to be “representative” school districts for California, Nashville for Georgia, Portland for Oregon and Seattle for Washington. Other “representative” school districts included Boston, Chicago, NYC, Philly, D.C. and Newark. The CDC’s principle appeared to be the maximization of wokeness. And the results from those 20,000 students, apparently concentrated in more liberal areas, were generalized to form a snapshot of teens nationwide.

That is where the nationwide 724,000 transgender teen estimate actually comes from.

The adult portions of the UCLA study come from the CDC’s Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System which are in turn supposedly gathered from a larger sample of 400,000 interviews. There are all sorts of statistical problems with the CDC’s BRFSS estimates of particular groups, and while these are esoteric, the problem with the results is a little easier for anyone to spot.

For example, Alaska is estimated to have a nicely rounded 1,700 ‘transgender women’ (men who claim to be women), 1,700 ‘transgender men’ (women who claim to be men) and 1,700 ‘transgender nonbinaries’ (who claim not to be whatever they are). Then, there are the 1,700 transgender teens in Alaska and 1,700 transgenders between 18 and 24 years old.

What are the odds of exactly 1,700 Alaskans falling into each category? Making these numbers even more improbable is Alaska’s famous male-skewed gender ratio. But not only does Alaska apparently have nearly as high a ratio of transgenders as California, but it has the same exact number of men identifying as women as the number of women identifying as men.

But once all of Alaska is transgender, the state’s male-female gender will finally disappear.

Maybe that’s why the CDC numbers also claim that Alaska has a higher non-binary ratio than California. And Alaska isn’t alone. Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Minnesota and Missouri, not to mention Arkansas, Ohio, Mississippi and West Virginia have higher ratios of men identifying as women than (the other ways around) than California.

But the winner by far is Oklahoma. And really, how likely is that?

Other incredible statistics from the CDC survey are the exactly 3,500 men identifying as women and 3,500 non-binaries in New Hampshire, and the exactly 1,600 men identifying as women and 1,600 women identifying as men in D.C. There may not be something in the water, but there may be something in the numbers. The goal of the numbers is to manufacture the idea of a widespread transgender trend that is sweeping the country and sweeping the youth.

How real is it? As real as the 1,700 nonbinaries of Alaska.

There is a real phenomenon of adults grooming teens to get on to the latest radical identity politics trend. Once teens fall into this trap, they’re dosed with castration drugs that leave them unable to ever lead normal lives again in exchange for being used as poster boys and girls for the movement. But it is not nearly as widespread as the various surveys try to claim.

It is however an insidious form of grooming that destroys lives, relationships and futures, and must be eliminated from America’s schools. And all federal support for it, whether at the CDC or anywhere else, must end.