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Kids are being forced back into the closet by you scumbags.

hooboy this lady stinks

ah, the plot thins...

They're morons for interviewing her. And they're collaborators for using her as a pull quote to get rage-click.

Jean*

It's very clearly governmental, institutional and social intimidation.

Is Jean Twenge a completely oblivious mule or just stupid?

Oh Casey Parks, it must be embarrassing watching the terrible analysis of your source get ripped to shreds. Or not, you do work for the propaganda arm of that ghoul Jeff Bezos.

wow i wonder why

She might also be a creep.

Yeah, because Republicans have made it clear that they want to do physical harm by way of the State to anyone who comes out. It’s like the 90s all over again. Fuck Republicans for wanting this.

Do some actual reporting and look into the statistics without giving a headline that misrepresents the facts. It was one single grade (9th) that changed, that was it. There is no larger shift, and this survey type is not in any way definitive.

I would say it is pretty clear, it is fear that they are next on the ICE hit list.

WaPo out here acting like they don't know what a chilling effect is, after rolling over at the merest pushback from the regime.

It's really fucking clear

Gee, can’t imagine why? Bezos and your editors helped create this hateful world.

It's called self preservation you fascist mouthpiece dipshits

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"What’s causing it is unclear?" Really?... REALLY!!

Really? It's not clear why young people may be more hesitant to openly identify as queer? Hm...

Are you fucking serious? What is causing it is the systemic oppression of LGBTQ people creating a cultural punishment structure around simply existing as LGBT tantamount to second-class citizenship. Jesus fucking christ what an embarrassment WaPo has become.

Hmm … yes, I wonder what in our current cultural climate could make high school bisexuals slightly less likely to announce their same-sex attraction when maybe they are in heterosexual relationships and it feels like an unnecessary risk. She’s literally trying to claim “it was all a phase.”

It ain’t a mystery. The government is targeting LGBTQ+ kids for harassment. Kids are afraid to come out because their government is trying to get them murdered.

Yeah I think I might know what's causing it

With this government + threatening civilian movements, it wouldnt be surprising if many marginalized groups are afraid to publicly admit themself on the record. Minority groups under reporting like vegetarians, atheists, furries, pacifists, many religions, etc Anything thing that could be a target.

why do you fucking morons think that is

It's entirely clear

"What's causing it is unclear?" It's the Nazis in charge, you unfrosted poptarts

God, i hate the wasthington post.. also if there's a hell. Your master Jeff bezos will burn there.

Another shitty Bezos article. Gee I don’t know why kids wouldn’t feel safe.

Heterosexuals are boring, worthless freaks, and shit like this is why. Fuck your demand that we all be boring little freaks like you.

The article is thankfully wrong

Let's hunt for clues and see if we can't figure it out

What's causing it is unclear? Seriously?

"Jews, the disabled, and gay people are disappearing from the streets of Nazi Germany. But what's causing it is unclear."

strange cause im seeing an uptick in queer children, i wonder what it means that there are more queer children and less of them are vocal about it

what a surprise...🤔

This is grossly inaccurate as per usual of TWP 🤣

You can't be this stupid, so I have to think the Post is fully fascist. Which was already obvious.

Per. Se. Cu. Tion. You fuckwits. Yet grindr is overloading servers wherever republicans gather en masse. Hmmmm…

[*] The trend in actual civilised countries is entirely the other way - but, being incurious dipshits, we couldn't possible comment as to why.

Fear would be why they're not identifying themselves. Plain old fear of getting abused by the new MAGANAZI regime of haters.

JFC

“but what’s causing it is unclear” is SENDING me okay nice ✅

Wapo is garbage, scared and unwilling to do their job, for shame on all of you, and the karma of what your inflicting on humans by not doing the job will be real and hopefully swift

"We don't know what's causing this." You assholes know exactly what's causing it. They know it's not safe to come out because of people like you.

Its evil assholes like the washington post owners

Homophobic much? Maybe read the study next time. Oh wait, shills, you are shills.

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What's causing it is that queer teens justifiably don't want to talk to you arseholes.

They are hiding because the nazis are in power.

It's the homophobia and the violence.

Identify themselves openly…

It’s the fascism.

JFC

It isn't even true! They used the data incorrectly:

Fucking idiots.

WaPo, young people have watched you and @nytimes.com and their elected officials publicly celebrate every time LGBTQ+ kids get the Matthew Shepard Special. It's not a mystery why they're afraid to come out these days.

The hell do you mean "unclear"

I think you people belong in jail

Um its like there is a hostile environment for kids to come out as gay or lesbian or trans.

Teachers who bind and beat left-handed students, celebrate drop in left-handed students

I really look forward to seeing this laughable refusal to print the blindingly obvious destroy the career of every writer who touched it.

UNCLEAR? Jesus do your jobs. Journalists are supposed to find the answers, not shrug and pretend they are not right in our faces. Go find out what the reasons are. I promise you they are not unclear.

Wapo with the most self-immolating, specious bullshit lede possible. Just block this right wing trashrag.

Unclear? Ffs!

Hmmm what could cause this? Perhaps feeling more unsafe about being honest about it as the pedophile party tries to push non heterosexuals back into the closet?

Unclear, meaning bold as fucking brass It's MAGA and its stochastic terrorism, of which your rag is a part

Oh go fuck yourselves 🖕

But what is the next trendy thing to be?

Probably not based on her apparent track record. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Tw...

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Sorry, "what’s causing it is unclear”? That's a lie. Jean Twenge is a liar. She is lying. Publicly.

Stupid

As unclear as a window.

I imagine it's because LGBTQIA people are being harassed, bullied, assaulted, raped and murdered for their sexuality/identity because of hateful bigots, while newspapers peddle harmful racist, homophobic and transphobic rhetoric to make sure those people feel unsafe in society. 🙄

Eat it.

“But what’s causing it is unclear.”

What's causing it is obvious. To say otherwise is journalistic malpractice.

Everything is unclear when you keep your eyes shut.

It's the facism dawg. Dawg it's the facism. They still queer but not open till the hateful fash are dead.

Yeah it’s a real mystery

you are a disgrace to journalism and i'm convinced half your staff is Claude now

Really? It's unclear? When you create laws to make it illegal or impossible to be something, you're surprised that fewer people admit to being it?

For a professor of psychology, the "It's unclear" result seems like either overzealousness or proof of incompetence & lack of touch with reality

It is not unclear.

It's almost like shitty media takes that feed bigotry make people scare to be out of the closet. I wonder who could have had a hand in that?

So sick and tired of these "aSkInG qUeStIoNs" headlines.... grow a spine and state the obvious

Gee, I wonder if it has something to do with the violent and aggressive comeback of raging homophobia that has made it unsafe to be gay like it’s the 80s all over again. Thanks for helping with that by the way. Worthless propagandist fucks.

Turns out that if rags like the washington post keep posting lies about queer people, we're unlikely to say openly that we're queer when scum like you is around.

lmao its because we're taking away lgbtq rights

Less likely to say they do, more like. Why? It's such a mystery....

could it be the fascistic right-wing majority in DC? no, it could not be that...

Maybe because you lot have been constantly working with regimes to push the narratives that will lead to the next big "in the closet" thing, and are gonna gleefully cheer for SCOTUS to finally get rid of gay marriage, and the point has always been power wants these people dead idk

Unclear? It's because coming out is dangerous right now. And teens are getting scared to be honest

It’s the same number they just aren’t telling you that because MAGA are insufferable bigots who want them dead.

Maybe it's this cute little thing called the US Government is actively trying and succeeding to weaponize the general population against LGBTQIA+ folk and kids are not coming out for fear of their own safety. Nahhhh, must be a different reason.

They don’t cause they’d be target for harassment and violence like 40 50 or even 60 years ago. The GOP verbally spreads hate towards anyone who’s not white, straight and Christian. Trump and many of his cronies have disrespected all 10 commandements. They’re as bad as the Talibans.

are you fucking dumb?

It’s a real fucking mystery if you’re a corpse without eyes or ears I guess.

"reports of children using their left hand are in free fall once we started hitting them with rulers for using their left hand."

And Putin is a wonderful man, and great leader!

RYFKM Pathetic trash. Unclear my 🫏

Wow, what a huge mystery, could be anything

Hey man do you think it could have anything to do with the criminalization and stripping of their basic rights? The influential people throughout the political faction currently in power wanting to "exterminate" them?

"But what's causing it is unclear."

context is crucial here.

Have you been paying attention, you ass clowns.

You're the reason the kids are going back in the closet. You did this to your children.

If we started killing left handed people for being left handed people would stop idenitifying as left handed too.

This you?

Maybe the way our political leaders are talking about putting gay and gender nonconforming kids in camps has something to do with it. Just maybe.

If you can read this you might be a left-hand dominant person who was forced to use their right hand.

kill yourself

Could it be constant suffocating hostility from the government?