Posted on 06/15/2023 7:54:56 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Maybe the fruitcakes should go back to the closet where their aberrant behavior belongs. There is NO place for grooming in America.
Leave the kids alone!
A coffee shop is a far more appropriate location for such conversations, not because the participants will feel "safer", but because THOSE CONVERSATIONS HAVE NO PLACE IN A SCHOOL CLASSROOM!
Always, the slanted, superficial use of statistics in propagandized articles of this type. The suicide stats from Trevor Project — are they Texas stats, or national stats taking into account urban or rural, race, family income, citizenship, education—all the factors that make the raw numbers skew different ways? No, just a scare stat, which is probably pounded into the heads of any young people who come to some of these “helping” organizations, horrifying them and gouging their already fragile sense of self.
Added to that, the LGBT lobby for the past 25 years or more has absolutely forbidden any substantive research into how people develop this ideation mentally or emotionally. The search for a gay gene or a conclusive biological marker has gone on since WW2 or more; yet nothing definitive has been found. But social science inquiries into the home environments, chemical or pharmaceutical exposures during gestation or childhood, traumatic events, childhood bullying, and particularly if there was forcible sexual abuse in childhood or a power-imbalanced relationship with an LGBT mentor such as a teacher in young adulthood—things a sane society could try to do something about—this is grounds to get a doctor or scientist cancelled.
I would like to see this phenomenon examined through reputable research. Is the same-sex-seeking actually an anxiety disorder, or low self-esteem as regards the opposite sex? Do LGBT kids actually have a higher rate of suicide, or do suicidal kids have a higher rate of experimenting with “taboo” behaviors, which flood the brain with a temporary “fix” of adrenaline?
Having grown up in the arts and worked in the arts for all of my long life, I have known many LGBT people well, and heard their stories. Many gay and lesbian people in the city I used to live in simply abandoned the behavior shortly after the AIDS crisis hit in the early 80s, married someone of the opposite sex and had children.
I would have liked for someone qualified to do controlled research to find many such men and women and do a longitudinal study as to whether this changeover was a reaction, or a rethinking, and did it last? Did the hetero behaviors last, did they become exclusive suddenly or gradually, or did they fade? Did the marriages of ex-gays last, as compared to the general population? Did any sort of religious or philosophical credo influence the behavior change? These questions are worth asking.
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