Do you consider LGBTQ lifestyles/choices a mental disorder?

[BuckToothMoron]

You could argue it’s a physical disorder. It seems to me that being gay, bi or lesbian is different than being transgender (frankly I am not sure what Q is). As I understand, transgenders are not sexual plumbed for what they feel mentally/emotionally. But is that a physical or mental problem, and if the issues can be solved by physical surgery, what difference does it make? My view, sexuality is a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum is the purely heterosexual or cis male, on the other end is the purely heterosexual or cis female. Between those two ends are bi, gay and lesbian people. The transgenders are an unfortunate anomaly outside of the heterosexual-male to heterosexual-female spectrum. Unfortunate because they struggle with a mind or body that do not match their sexual identity. None of the people on the spectrum or outside of it are evil or even sinners because of their sexuality. Although people in the LGBTQ community are not what is considered normal, they are clearly natural. Why would anybody decide to be gay or transgender? Because it’s easy? Of course not. It’s hard to be outside of what is considered normal. The more society grows and evolves, the easier it will be for those who find themselves not “normal”, and that is a good thing.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Why don’t you you just leave them alone?

Why don't you just kiss my ass?

No. It’s hairy.

Wait! How do you know his ass is hairy? And if it weren’t, would you then not be opposed to kissing it?

 

[Ame®icano]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

They aren't.

However phobias are.

Phobia is fear.

Nobody fears LGBTQ.

The fear is towards the government that forces rest of us to accept something that we disgust.

You don’t have to accept anything. Just treat them like you would anyone else. Is that so hard?

It wouldn't be hard at all if they act normal towards rest of us, and stop demanding that we adjust our self to fit their needs.

Take for instance trans movement, that is ideologically based and, just like other ideologies, can't handle reality being any different from what their ideological fantasies tell them reality "sjould" be like. So they try to "adjust" reality to fit their fantasies instead of the other way round, which is always a recipe for disaster.
You are either a man pretending to be a woman or vice versa.

Now, if you want to play dress-up, that's fine. I won't care. You can walk down the high street in an Estee Lauder dress, high heels and a 5 O'clock shadow and I'm just going to think "what a prat". I'm going to think it, but I'm not going to be rude and say anything.

But the moment you try and force me to accept that you are a woman when you're clearly not, by trying to shame me in front of others for not being "accepting", or use government, like they do in Canada and trying to do in few states, to criminalize me for not using the "proper" gender or pronunciation, you're going to get a slap.

 

[leecross]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

I consider it sorta like I do someone being left-handed or color blind or a woman being flat chested or a guy with an abnormally small or large member...

Along those lines.

 

[MindWars]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

Homosexuality also exists among animals and nature. Maybe you should spend your free time analyzing them and leave humans alone.

Homosexual behaviour is natural in the animal and plant kingdoms

no it doesn't and no it did not......... the gayness there is today is being caused by chemicals being dumped into our water supply and or lakes and streams. dumbass.

Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females
Date:
March 1, 2010
Source:
University of California - Berkeley
Summary:
The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study. These changes occur at atrazine levels below what the EPA considers safe for drinking water. The changes skew sex ratios in the frog population and could be a major cause of amphibian decline worldwide.
Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females


Atrazine Alters the Sex Ratio in Blanchard's Cricket Frogs

 

[EvilCat Breath]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

Homosexuality also exists among animals and nature. Maybe you should spend your free time analyzing them and leave humans alone.

Homosexual behaviour is natural in the animal and plant kingdoms

Animals exhibit homosexual behavior when subjected to a stressor such as an inability to find an appropriate mate. Animals are not homosexual.

Homosexuality is a benign condition. It is only when it becomes widely accepted that it becomes toxic.

Transsexuality is sometimes a medical error where the primary sex characteristics are ambiguous and the doctor makes an arbitrary decision. More often, transsexuality is a mental disorder. The same kind of mental disorder that drives people to amputate limbs, blind themselves or starve themselves to death.

 

[aaronleland]

I was watching this comic on Joe Rogans' podcast talking about getting kicked off stage at a college for offensive jokes. One joke he said is that he believes being gay isn't a choice, because there are gay black people. And why would you choose to be gay if you're already black? That's a fucking good joke.

 

[Slade3200]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

Do people choose to be depressed OCD stressed out schizophrenic or bipolar?

 

[Crepitus]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

They aren't.

However phobias are.

Phobia is fear.

Nobody fears LGBTQ.

The fear is towards the government that forces rest of us to accept something that we disgust.

Wrong. A phobia is an extreme, irrational fear of something. It does seem to be a major part of the "tRumpkin experience".

 

[Slade3200]

Why don’t you you just leave them alone?

Why don't you just kiss my ass?

No. It’s hairy.

Wait! How do you know his ass is hairy? And if it weren’t, would you then not be opposed to kissing it?

Kissing a hairy ass is one step too far

 

[Dale Smith]

LGBTQRSTUV= Degenerates and that is a fact.

 

[emilynghiem]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

Dear Grampa Murked U
It depends on each person whether the answer is yes or no.
You didn't offer a choice that it could be either in different cases.
That's not the same as "unsure" but that's the closest I could find.

This is like asking are all people who claim to believe in Jesus or God
* acting on delusions, fraud or false manipulations (where this is "unnatural" or problematic)
* consistent and conscionable (where this is natural for them and healthy, not posing problems)
or are you "unsure"?

Some people are involved in fraud or false manipulations or delusions that cause conflicts internally and externally with others.
Some people are truly at peace with their beliefs and able to apply them consistently to work rationally and harmoniously with others in positive healthy ways.

So the answer is not YES for all or NO for all.
And being "unsure" isn't the same as saying
SOME cases are healthy/natural while OTHERS are delusional/problematic/fraudulent.

Similar I'd say that with people identifying as LGBT
there is also this diversity of experiences because people are unique.
I am fairly SURE that both types of cases exist:
either normal/natural conditions that are that person's real identity
as well as unstable/unnatural conditions that aren't their true selves.

 

[miketx]

Why don’t you you just leave them alone?

Because they don't leave us alone.

 

[Chuz Life]

I know this might be a shock to you but we are not animals.
Do you excuse rape because animals often mount anyone they want?

Not animals? Did you fail biology?

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[Likkmee]

Various Laws
…4If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up. 5A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God. 6If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.…

 

[OnePercenter]

We drug kids for being hyper(being normal).
We have drugs for depression.
We have drugs for OCD.
We have drugs for stress.
We have drugs for schizophrenia.
We have drugs for bipplar.

The list goes on and on. But we dont treat people who think they are something they clearly are not or people who think unnatural behavior is okay?

Writes the guy who downloads a ton of gay porn.

 

[OnePercenter]

Why don’t you you just leave them alone?

He keeps deception going (like the wall) so we don't notice Russia successfully test a nuclear delivery device that we (Americans) can't stop.

 

[beautress]

I had to look up "LGBTQ" and found out that it means "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer," because I really wasn't sure of all that it meant.

From a study of human health science in college, I knew that some people are born with both male and female organs and as such indicate that nature has her way of expressing that some of us human beings can be born different from everybody else.

I found out two more new terms here, one being "ambiguous genetalia" and the other, those who have this feature are referred to as "intersex."

The statistics for people born in identifiably different degrees of this phenomenon show 150 known differentiations of the condition, and here are some of the statistics that seem to surround people so born:

Statistics on Ambiguous Genitalia - 15 Notable Ambiguous Genitalia Statistics - HRF
1. If all forms of differentiation are included, then the number of intersex births globally comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births.
2. If just ambiguous genitalia is considered, the estimated birth rate is 1 in 4,500.
3. With few exceptions, babies with ambiguous genitalia are physically healthy.
4. The percentage of the population that is affected in some way by ambiguous genitalia: 1.7%.
5. As much as 4% of the human population may be intersex in some way.
6. Over 90% of intersex children are assigned to the female gender.
7. About half of all intersex children that have surgery to assign a specific gender wind up with sexually sensitive tissue that has withered or died.
8. Many adults who have ambiguous genitalia suffer from depression or intense anger because of a lack of genital sensations. They are three times more likely to experience depression and related disorders than people with a clear gender assignment.
9. Ambiguous genitalia can signal a medical emergency if the condition is the result of a rare form of a genetic disorder called congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
10. There are over 150 different defects that can cause ambiguous genitalia.
11. The risk of becoming a victim of a personal attack because of their gender is doubled in people who are classified as intersex.
12. Almost 90% of those who are intersex have experienced at least one form of stigma or discrimination in the past year.
13. About 70% of intersex males and 85% of intersex females have seen a counselor or psychiatrist during the previous 5 years.
14. The number of young people who are dealing with depression at some point during the course of the year: 160,000.
15. 1 out of 4 people who are intersex will suffer from at least one anxiety-related disorder over the course of their life.
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Some people are born with a hand with six fingers, too. They have a better chance of being accepted into the comfortable conformity than those born with the extra sex organ, I'm pretty sure. Why is that?

An anomaly, after all, is an anomaly.

The person who is born this way has done nobody wrong.

Some people "choose" lifestyles that are not consistent with the majority of Americans, what do we know about genetic mapping that might give us a clue that they, too, are born this way? Since we have not fully understood nor explored all the factors of DNA, those facts went unfurnished in the early 1980s when I was studying human health in college. As of searching the net every 5 or 10 years, I'm overdue to look up whether gene mapping has come up with any answers.

In the meantime, I do not know how to vote on this subject with the alternatives given, so in spite of my knowledge of scriptures that discourage what used to be called sexual deviancies, yet also showed favor to "armies of eunuchs" I'm wondering if a whole lot of overlooking lethal punishments for sexual activities that do not produce babies went on back in the times of the Kings and the Chronicles thereof. Are the armies of "eunuchs" really gay men sent to do battle and earning hero status in early societies when they won battles? I'm suspicious that they were likely gay, and that society figured out a way to use them productively rather than to stone men to death for getting caught doing something that was considered then an abomination, and still is in some circles today.

The theme of "judge not least ye be judged," seems the best panacea to follow, considering that science, applied equally, reveals some people are born in a unique way, and without a mistake, they are born as innocent as the majority of kids, who have only one sex of genetalia expressed at birth.

And DNA gives me cause to realize that we haven't looked very hard at getting over it about what appear to be choices, but with DNA in mind, are there actually differences in a person's sexual makeup influenced in this way, or does one single encounter received innocently, alter the course of choices a person makes when he or she is mature? We've been in the dark ages about this emotion-charged issue. We don't know the answers yet, or have there been answers all along in the ringing praises about the armies of eunuchs in the Old Testament that we just glossed over, didn't look it as merciful removal of a death sentence that really didn't seem fair to people who knew them.

I can't answer the question above, because I think someday a complete study of DNA, of the certainty of something known as gene-crossing, which can give a person a unique spot on their dna that did not come from heredity, but came as an unknown anomaly that gave the person this trait that no one has or ever has had, and may be why every person is a unique creation, born with a myriad of genes that make that person who they are.

And that's what I think, with gratitude to God for the diversity he ordained throughout the universe. We need to help those who are different, not judge them. A person doesn't intentionally thrash around if they have epilepsy, but it makes them get a lot of grief from other immature children who think they are acting up to get attention, when nothing could be further than the truth.

Another source of interest on this topic is here: Demographics of sexual orientation - Wikipedia

And specifically for the US: LGBT demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

 

[Lakhota]

I'm thankful for Rachel Maddow! She is a gift.

 

[Lysistrata]

Sexual orientation is hard-wired in an individual. It is not a "lifestyle choice." No one knows where one's sexual orientation comes from. To my own experience, and I am female, I remember being attracted to boys and male TV stars way before I hit puberty, and recently I came across a male actor, young enough to be my son, who caused me to drop my dinner fork and just gape! The answer is that we just don't know how sexual orientation and human sexuality operate. It has nothing to do with politics.

I think that it is worthwhile to note here that adopting a certain religion/ideology actually IS a choice of lifestyle, one that can be changed at will.The anti-LGBTQ folks refuse to understand that they can change their ideology.