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Johns Hopkins Research: No Evidence People Are Born Gay or Transgender
Johns Hopkins Research: No Evidence People Are Born Gay Or Transgender
August 23, 2016 ~ By Tyler O'Neil
Scholars at Johns Hopkins University released a new report on Monday which argues that there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that lesbian, gay, or transgender people are born with this sexual orientation or gender identity.
"The idea there that sexual orientation is fluid, that people change as people grow," Lawrence Mayer, a co-author of the report and a scholar-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's psychiatry department, as well as a professor of statistics and biostatistics at Arizona State University, told The Christian Post. "There are probably some people that identify as heterosexual [sic] that then later on identified as homosexual, so it goes both ways. The importance there is the fluidity and flexibility that these things change in time."
The three-part, 143-page report, which appeared in the Fall 2016 edition of The New Atlantis, also investigated other commonly accepted ideas about homosexuality and transgenderism. Mayer and his co-author Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins, challenged the claim that discrimination and social stigma are the only reasons why homosexual and transgender people suffer higher rates of mental health problems and are more likely to commit suicide.
The study breaks down in three parts: First, Mayer and McHugh examined whether homosexuality is an inherited trait, and concluded that people are not simply "born that way." Second, they looked at the causes of the poor mental health associated with gay and transgender people, concluding that social stress does not explain all of it. Finally, they studied transgenderism, concluding that it is not innate and that transgender "treatments" are associated with negative outcomes.
The report found insufficient evidence to back up the idea that people are born with innate sexual attractions. Mayer and McHugh examined past studies which show a modest association between genetic factors and sexual orientation, but these studies have not been able to pinpoint particular genes responsible. Other hypothesized biological causes, such as prenatal development and hormones, have also been linked to sexual orientation, but that evidence is also limited.
"Studies of the brains of homosexuals and heterosexuals have found some differences, but have not demonstrated that these differences are inborn rather than the result of environmental factors that influenced both psychological and neurobiological traits," the report explained. "One environmental factor that appears to be correlated with non-heterosexuality is child sexual abuse victimization, which may also contribute to the higher rates."
"So the question 'Are gay people born that way?' requires clarification. There is virtually no evidence that anyone, gay or straight, is 'born that way' if it means that their sexual orientation was genetically determined," the report explained (emphasis added). "But there is some evidence from the twin studies that certain genetic profiles probably increase the likelihood the person later identifies as gay or engages in same-sex sexual behavior."
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Homosexuality is a behavior. Behaviors are complex but imprinting is a major cause and getting worse...…
Your gender/sex at the moment of conception. Your DNA (XX for females and XY for males) is fixed at that time. Fortunately, your DNA is your DNA. It cannot be changed, ever. Hormones and disfiguring surgery may change your outward appearance but your DNA is fixed forever. Males are males and females are females forever. God has spoken.
Perhaps, there should an effort to working backwards to whether transsexualism causes mental health issues, but rather they should examine if mental health issues cause transgenderism.
Progressives Marxist Socialist/DSA Leftists care about winning, about imposing their ideological vision on others rather than about the conceptual coherence or consistency of that ideological vision.
Consequently, progressive ideology is stitched together from a motley of incompatible, even contradictory, premises. To wit, LGBTs are "born that way" except that everything is a "social construct" and there is no such thing as "natural determination" or "human nature." Along the same lines, LGBTs must be true to their "essential identity" and to "who they really are", but "essence" is a myth, and all identities are "fluid" and subject to endless re-fashioning.
Such examples could, of course, be multiplied almost indefinitely: Women have universal and inviolable rights, but "universality" is a mask to conceal what is at bottom "Western hegemony." Patriarchal oppression must be opposed, however, Islamic subjection of women must be celebrated in the name of "multi-culturalism." On and on it goes.
In short, whatever evidence biological research may uncover about the nature of human sexuality will have no effect whatsoever on PMS/DSA opinion, unless such evidence happens to comport with the progressive meme-of-the-day.