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What strikes me as offensive is the idea that the only defense of queerness is "it's not my fault, I didn't choose to be like this". Lots of people choose to explore their sexuality and find that their preferences change as a result. That's normal and healthy and good.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1316223453570228225 …
Hard cosign. I'm extremely strongly of the opinion that there is a significant amount of (though certainly not total!) freedom of choice in both gender and sexuality, having exercised such choice myself, and I really resent discourse about it being all innate and immutable.
It's especially bad in a trans context. I wasn't "born this way", that's literally the issue here!
Yeah. I think there's a lot of how trans stuff gets talked about that wants to legitimise it by painting it as intrinsic and biological, but I think "Sometimes transition is going to be a good choice for people and I don't really care why they want to do it?" is the best stance.
Come on guys. The reason that the limited mutability of sexual preferences has to be emphasized is because e.g., otherwise some people will send their 13 year old kid to conversion camp.
It doesn't seem to be working particularly well for getting people to not do that, and seems to be hurting a lot of people for whom their sexuality is an important part of their life, so I don't really feel like this is as convincing an argument as people treat it as.
There is (= should be!) choice about what you DO, sexually and in terms of your gender presentation. There certainly is around your identity. But choice about your sexual attraction and internal sense of your gender? Not much, if any, of that is.
I don't really agree? I've had some pretty major internal shifts on both fronts. I think amount of it that is fixed is highly personal, but from personal experience there can be a lot more scope for choice than it feels like.
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