Thu Jun 22, 2023 – 8:57 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — “Non-binary” identification among New Jersey public school students spiked by over 4,000 since 2019, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The report bolsters evidence that transgenderism and “non-binary” identification has become a social trend and is not an innate reality.
While just 16 students claimed to be “non-binary” during the 2019-2020 school year, that number rose to a staggering 675 by the 2022-2023 school year, according to New Jersey Department of Education enrollment data.
Forty-one of the 675 are reportedly elementary school students.
Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit parental rights group, told the Free Beacon the jump reflects the fact that divergent gender identification has become a “social contagion.”
“These numbers aren’t surprising to anyone who has been following the massive social contagion of adopting different gender identities, especially among adolescent girls,” Sanzi said.
Conservatives have vocally raised the alarm about the “social contagion” element of transgender and “non-binary” identification in recent years, noting that social media use among young people and the adulation for divergent “gender identities” has triggered the astronomical rise in children and young people claiming not to
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