[From The Archives] Gays Can Go Straight And Straights Can Go Gay

from Stand Firm by Sarah

It's interesting to me that a person who asserts that she just feels like she is "a man trapped in a woman's body" when she clearly has the xx chromosomes is happily encouraged to "seek change" so that they can "be who they really are inside" but a person who feels like he is "a man trapped in a homosexual orientation" is loudly informed that he was born that way and that it is only guilt and shame and a cruel societal/religious rigidity that makes him feel like he'd like to be something other than gay.

This section from an old NRO article reminded me of that:

"Sexual orientation, I believe, is not as genetically determined as gay activists argue, nor does it flow as inexorably towards heterosexuality as religious conservatives might hope. While most gays stay gay and most straights remain straight, there are people all around them who travel all over the sexual map.

It also is interesting to consider this controversy within the context of the changing terminology that homosexual activists have embraced over the years. What began as the gay-rights movement eventually became the lesbian-and-gay-rights movement after homosexual women clamored aboard the bandwagon gay men launched at New York’s Stonewall Riot in 1969. Before long, bisexuals officially were along for the ride. Today, the most impeccably PC terminology is the acronym “LGBTQ.” This stands for “lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and questioning.” (The latter is roughly equivalent to the undecided category in a political opinion survey).

Gay liberals who ridicule the idea that gays can become straight shot their toes off when they inserted the “T” in LGBTQ. If “transgender” individuals can be embraced (and, in San Francisco, publicly subsidized) for having their genitalia surgically rearranged to liberate their inner males or inner females, why is it heretical to suggest that some gays can go straight? Why can’t a gay man’s inner heterosexual or a straight woman’s inner homosexual be unshackled? And just think, no scalpel required!