Posted on 06/11/2019 8:14:43 AM PDT by Candor7
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 hetrosexual [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."
The report cited the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, which tracked the sexual orientation of children aged 7 to 12 in 1994-1995 and again in 2007-2008. Eighty percent of male respondents who had reported same-sex attraction and both-sex attraction in childhood later identified as exclusively heterosexual, while more than half of the females who reported both-sex attraction as children reported exclusive attraction to men as adults.
Mayer and McHugh also analyzed twins. They pointed to a 2010 study by psychiatric epidemiologist Niklas Långström which analyzed 3,826 identical and fraternal same-sex twin pairs. Both twins had at least one same-sex partner in only 18 percent of male identical twins, and 11 percent of male fraternal twins. For women, both twins had at least one homosexual partner in 22 percent of identical twins and 17 percent of fraternal twins.
"Summarizing the studies of twins, we can say that there is no reliable scientific evidence that sexual orientation is determined by a person's genes," the researchers wrote. "But there is evidence that genes play a role in influencing sexual orientation."
"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."
I suspect homosexuality can be either innate or learned, but the cause is beside the point, since society experiences a person's sexuality strictly through their behavior, which shoots down the civil rights reasoning as far as the law goes. Then it's just a matter of societal attitudes, which are determined outside the law as long as rights aren't being violated.
BTW - Most homosexuals were molested as children. Like Stockholm Syndrome victims they become what their abusers were. It's a common reaction to mental trauma.
For a three year old report, this has not been widely circulated.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Exactly right, which is why I am circulating it. Nice catch Ray!
DNA can, and does change.
Thankfully it's not too common, but when it does, it's called a (genetic) mutation. [1] [2]. One of the nastier mutations in DNA, often times an "acquired" mutation, leads to cancer. [3]
Then the research isn’t done. Sorry but there must be a genetic component somehow. Otherwise, how would gaydar work? Too many similarities in speach, manmerisms, etc. Not universal, but enough to suggest it. Otherwise, one must believe there is a manual on how to act, speak, etc., that one follows when they make “the choice.”
Stick a fork in em....
Homosexuality is ALWAYS about genital gratification.
This study actually reinforces tons of research on the subject....over the past 100 years....
XXX and XXY? People may not be born “gay,” but what of the developmental changes during puberty? Are they possibly born to become “gay”?
No, but some people are born mentally ill. We should not encourage their deviant behavior.
I am reminded of a book on mental illness I read back in 1985. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name.
An article inside dealt with a young man drafted out of the back hills of Arkansas back in WW II.
He had no interest in women, and he wasn’t homo. So they looked at his life. His mother died when he was born and he was raised entirely by men. Never got to town, never saw a woman.
So one doctor showed him a photo of a young heifer cow. Instant reaction.
What is this now.. about 30 years of soy fed infants? Epigenetics? Or simply soy attacking endocrine systems and altering brain chemistry.
I tried to find evidence that says soy is not causing this.. none found ( still looking ;)). Big Farm cash.
What is your source for that assertion? I’d like to go read it.
My point, and you know this, is that DNA cannot be willfully changed by another human.
They just become perverts!
“Imagine that.......”
GOD ALMIGHTY DOESN’T MAKE MISTAKES..If you are born male, you will be that until the day you die and the same with female. I don’t care how many hormones you take. You are either male or female.
This “appeal to authority” to refute that some people are born gay, is the weakest form of argument. Anecdotally, while strongly straight myself, I have personal experience and benefit of many years of life and first-hand observations to know, without any doubt, that homosexuality is born into some individuals. They don’t learn it, or chose it. They can’t anymore chose to not be gay than they can chose to not breath.
How should we regard a pre-school male who consistently displayed distinct feminine traits, who was not at all likely to have been sexually molested and as a teenager would be immediately presumed to be gay?
I perhaps naively think everything is fixable or subject to a workaround, and fear we may be irresponsibly ignoring a segment of our society.
Don't buy this. If this is so, why does an overwhelming majority of the population tend to be heterosexual??? We are programmed to perpetuate the species, which means heterosexuals necessarily dominate . . . period.
We know what we have observed and are smart enough to put it into context with what we know of the world.
Am not sufficiently close to the parents of the young male I described above to know if they have or are addressing the situation, nor close enough to open a discussion. If an opportunity arose and it seemed appropriate I would be inclined to talk about medical tests and the favorable results some have had with hypnosis.
Homosexuals are not born that way, they just get sucked into it.
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