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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Caps don’t offend me if copy/pasted. I found the data interesting. It bothers me that 15% of AO’s are gay. Being gay/binary/trans has become too much of a hook when most of these kids are privileged and probably won’t face much discrimination in life. I feel elite schools are recruiting too narrowly. You end up with a student body composed of very leftist students intolerant of free speech. Like those Yale kids vowing to follow conservatives around 24 hours a day to make their life unbearable.[/quote]

I kind of understand your perspective,  since I live in Takoma Park (an affirming environment for LGBTQ),  but, not having walked in the shoes of someone who is LGBTQ,  I think this is a gross simplification.  Sure, in my neighborhood,  most LGBTQ kids are privileged and well supported,  but that is really a minority overall.  And, as a country,  we have a long way to go to truly include LGBTQ perspective. I, frankly, think this number should be higher overall.  The LGBTQ movement is really just expressing something that was always there but rarely represented.  The kinsey report supports that.

I do not think of LGBTQ kids as leftist in political terms, but the left is the only part of the spectrum to affirm their identity. As the right embraces dogma and forced narrative over data and lived experience, it divorces itself from higher ed. It's not a case of "being leftist."

-- Former right leaning evangelical who is now left leaning evangelical and mom to LGBTQ kid.[/quote]

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