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[beccaelizabeth]

I watched that thing with JB finding science to say he was indeed born gay.
And, you know, I'm happy for him that he found an answer that's valuable to him, that he can live with, all that.
I just think it's a whole lot more complicated than that. And I don't like the way things were phrased. Seemed to mush together gender and sexuality, and ignore the way averages are not individuals.
And if he thinks that being born that way is an answer to people who think it's evil, I think he's sadly very naive. Women is born women and certain parties have considered them evil since long and long.

We don't need to prove that queer is a way you're born, we need to persuade that it's a good way to be, and science the way that documentary used it isn't going to make a dent in that one.

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[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

It's nice to throw the "it's a lifestyle choice, not genetics!" saying under the bus. Violently.

But you're right, it doesn't exactly raise the bar for "gay = just as good as straight."

[beccaelizabeth]

I don't actually think it is nice, because I consider genetics the enemy in oh so many ways, and choose to be better than my genes. But that has nothing to do with sexuality directly, just in general my abhorrence of the idea of the future being set by anything but choice.

Personally, I don't know or care when or how I started, but I choose to be me. Or at least make some choices and work towards them.

So I say is choice and a good choice. But I totally get why some people want the other answer.