Next thing you know, you're going to tell me that the number of left handed people increases when we stopped beating it out of them. They're putting shit in the water to make the fricking frogs lefties!
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Are these figures separated between each letter? I would be interested to see which of them have grown more than the others. My own guesstimate is that the amount of LGB has remained pretty stable (per capita).
A counterpoint to this trend can be read here: https://quillette.com/2023/02/10/social-contagion-and-transgender-identities/
The change across time was especially large for college students. In 2009, one in 665 students identified as transgender, as compared to one in 56 in 2016, a nearly 12-fold increase in seven years!
There's something weird going on here. Way beyond what can be explained by a simple "but being trans is so accepted now". Accepted or encouraged?
OH NO! THEM QUEERS ARE MITOSIS-ING!!!
No, it didn’t. Simply fewer of us are in the closet. We found strength and hope and support— and most importantly, we found ourselves. 
It’s a little something called Pride, and it’s just one of the reasons why we have an annual global celebration. 🏳️🌈