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 …
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Replying to @geekethics
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.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @geekethics
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.
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Replying to @BiFuriosa @GeniesLoki
I always get confused by this. I've made lots of intentional choices about my attraction and gender. The fact other people haven't seems very strange to me. Frankly if you're certain about your identity it's often because you've not thought about it very much.
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Replying to @geekethics @GeniesLoki
Hmm, both can change - I am not saying they're fixed - but being able to go "I think I will now be attracted to X" or "I think I will now have a Y gender" is not most people's experience. If it was, conversion therapy (sic) would work.
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Replying to @BiFuriosa @geekethics
I don't think anyone is claiming that these choices are freely and easily made? Certainly my experience of this area is that the change comes as the result of quite a lot of work, but the choice is about which direction to do the work in.
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(FWIW my changes in this space have resulted in me being significantly more cis, bi, and allosexual than I used to be. I don't think these were fully free choices, in that these were all things where the potential was there, but I could definitely have chosen differently)
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