IN-DEPTH: Researchers Find Explosion of Youth Gender Dysphoria Over the Last Decade

Protesters opposing medical transgender procedures for youths gather at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Oct. 7, 2022. Courtesy of TreVoices.Org/Scott Newgent

Transgenderism has exploded among youth in the United States over the last decade.

Americans between the ages of 13 and 17 make up nearly 20 percent of the people in the United States who identify as transgender, according to a 2022 report by the Williams Institute, a think tank at the University of California–Los Angeles School of Law.