It amazes me when people toss around scary percentages around youth identifying themselves as queer as proof of anything other than increased awareness leading to younger people actually finding out there are words they can use to describe themselves.
It’s like left-handedness. Look at that spike! OMG! It’s an epidemic! People are *making* other people left-handed! We need to stop it somehow!
Or, y’know, we stopped demonizing it and people got to be themselves. Could be that.