Heying points out that otherwise the numbers don’t make sense. By the time she left Evergreen State College in 2017, 40 percent of students were answering yes to campus surveys asking, “Do you identify as LGBTQ?” “So that’s obviously insane,” she said. “There’s simply no way that 40 percent of any student body” is LGBTQ, “when across cultures, LGB consistently comes in at around 10 percent, and probably even that is high. There’s just no way.” (By 2020, 50 percent of students at Evergreen were identifying as LGBTQ or “questioning.”
