Johns Hopkins Research: No Evidence People Are Born Gay or Transgender

PJ Media ^ | August 23, 2016 | Tyler O'Neil August 23, 2016

[Yardstick]

The left wants to have it both ways. When they want to piggyback gay rights on the black civil rights movement, they use the logic of sexuality being innate like skin color. But when they want to emphasize a more libertarian notion of "choice" and self-determination and self-expression, then suddenly it becomes fluid or learned or otherwise not innate.

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.

[Varda]

Remember the “Gay Gene” article that was published in Science in the 90’s? It was a propaganda piece that was quickly falsified by evidence. Well, it did it's job. That article was quoted by the MSM everywhere . The followup was never quoted. The average guy on the street bought it hook line and sinker. It's been downhill ever since. People have been fooled into thinking homosexual behavior is natural. And to lots of people , natural = good.

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.

[Candor7]

For a three year old report, this has not been widely circulated.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exactly right, which is why I am circulating it. Nice catch Ray!

[rxsid]

"Fortunately, your DNA is your DNA. It cannot be changed, ever."

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]

[NonValueAdded]

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.”

[Uncle Miltie]

Stick a fork in em....

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Homosexuality is ALWAYS about genital gratification.

[nikos1121]

This study actually reinforces tons of research on the subject....over the past 100 years....

[gundog]

XXX and XXY? People may not be born “gay,” but what of the developmental changes during puberty? Are they possibly born to become “gay”?

[MileHi]

...there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that lesbian, gay, or transgender people are born with this sexual orientation or gender identity.

No, but some people are born mentally ill. We should not encourage their deviant behavior.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[momincombatboots]

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.

[upchuck]

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.

[DownInFlames]

They just become perverts!

[kagnew]

“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.

[myerson]

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.

[frog in a pot]

You each raise interesting points.

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.

[RatRipper]

The report found insufficient evidence to back up the idea that people are born with innate sexual attractions

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.

[frog in a pot]

You and I have a very similar perspective.

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.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Homosexuals are not born that way, they just get sucked into it.