Dealing With the World While Gay

TYPICAL OF TYPICALLY crazy conservative reasoning, conservatives seems to believe that homosexuality and transgender "ism" are conscious choices, as if people, on any given day, suddenly decide, "today I will go gay". Or as if they think about it often, maybe every day, then, decide. Those who choose to believe this nonsense evidently have not the foggiest idea how idiotic it is. Apparantly, these misinformed folks are unaware that a specific gene for homosexuality has been discovered and identified, conclusively, whihc means, in short, that being gay is not a matter of personal freedom, choice, freedom, and will power, but, rather, of heredity. To the best of my knowledge, no such gene has yet been found for transgdner people; which of course does not mean that one wont be. But either way, does it matter, and, if so, why? Why should it? Nobody has shown any evidence that anyone anywhere changes back and forth from gay to straight, from male to female, more than once; that argument by conservatives thus becomes merely more demonstrable idiocy. People, in a nutshell, are gay or straight for exactly the same reason they have blonde or black hair - they inherited it. Even those right wing homophobic fanatics capable of understanding this and aware of it prefer to overlook it, because it contradicts their personal political prejudices. For some it may be difficult but it is not impossible for adults of any age to remember what it was like to be a kid. Its tough enough being a heterosexual, "normal" kid. To grow up gay in America, or for that matter just about anywhere in this corrupt world, must be horrible, to say the least. when I was a kid it was illegal to be gay in the United States, and most gay people were either in prison, or hiding in the proverbial "closet". What a life. That's why the negative conservative attitude towards homosexuality is so thoroughly reprehensible and egregious. Its based on false information, and, it does great harm to innocent people, particularly gay and transgender people. Obviously conservatives somehow have gotten the crazy notion that people can be and are being turned into gay and transgenders through educational indoctrination, as if America'spublic schools are spawning grounds for alternative sexuality. Another insane notion. Merely teaching acceptance of gay and transgender people is not the same thing as trying to brainwash someone into becoming gay or transgender. These new right wing laws prohibiting mentioning alternative sexual oreientations in school will do great harm to many innoent children, and sould be repealed extraordinarily repidly. Innocent children will be afraid to be themselves, to be who they really are, and will feel persecuted and excluded for situations beyond their control. Truly, these laws, and their underlying rationale, is child abuse.