okedoke: You grew up in a geographic area dominated by Mormons. Probably this was connected to your parent's choice of where to live, and where to remain, while you were between the ages of 3 and 18.
Who knows what makes people have a sexual orientation or even a preference. In the end, it all boils down to what you can get anyway. I may prefer young blonde women aged 23, but at 53, I'll settle for the knowledge that my 43 year-old wife is probably the best I can get at this point. So, I'll stay married. But, if she left me for some reason or another, I'd probably swing for the fences and try landing me a 33 year old.
Isn't that the WHOLE point? It has nothing to do with whether people choose to be gay or are born that way. Most people realize that most people who identify as gay are neither designated to that orientation solely by their biology nor do they wake up one day and decide they want to be sexually attracted to the same sex. The real conversation, the one always under the surface, is whether people are INFLICTED with being gay. Is it conditioned, socialized, and/or taught to people? If it is, then for the sake of protecting impressionable younger minds from the corruption/contagion of a deviation of sexuality, should they not be shielded from the environmental and cultural influences that give rise to the infliction? For those who are inflicted, they may not have chosen it but can't they CHOOSE not to spread it to others and perhaps make an effort to change themselves? If it is not innate or immutable then does it not become a matter of choice of whether people choose to remain gay when they may take steps to alter their sexual attractions?This is the post-gay reality of the neoconservative movement. Homosexual behavior is the sin, but the identity tied to its underlying attractions is a social disease. A manifestation of a hedonistic culture, self perpetuating through the indoctrination of a new generation of youth by the narrative of an oppressed culture. There is no "gay". It is purely a social construction and to even acknowledge it is to validate its existence and to perpetuate its influence. That is the new model of the "enlightened" conservative and the basis of the new policies that have been sweeping the world to stifle the expression of gay culture or any positive representation it may have. Literature reviews such as these are both a gift and a burden. They expel the old tenets and talking points, but they only open new questions when to some, they are seen as absolute proof that homosexuality is a cultural and social disease.
Ah yes, this angle-
If SRS is attempted, they must be absolutely sure that they are trans. Of course, adopting anti-freedom views "for the children" is a popular angle for authoritarians.
