The things you're describing are mostly pushed by the LGBT groups, gender studies weirdos, and sympathetic faculty and students in the humanities. The administrators are scared to death at being called out for putting a foot down.
There's a reason they focus on young people. For one, as said before, they can't procreate, so they recruit. Second, they want to desensitize and groom young people. As we've seen with "transgenderism," it works. Numbers are skyrocketing.