Would you support a cure for homosexuality and transexualism?
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I would not support it, despite being currently closeted to my family/friends, because I am as I am and I don't want the be changed, and the idea of completely changing someone's personality as though it were simply like getting plastic surgery for a wrinkle is kind of sickening.
I'd definitely be behind something like this. If it does turn out at some point in the future that anything except heterosexuality is just a genetetic (or whatever else) defect, then I'm all for fixing that shit up. I mean, part of the reason incest is such a bad idea is that it causes genetic problems down the line, doesn't it? Otherwise I wouldn't have a problem with it.
As it stands though, I'd rather they cure all the mental issues first, like all the autism spectrum disorders. In this day and age I face less flak for being bisexual than I do for having Asperger's. It's still considered perfectly fine to discriminate against the spacky retards after all. No special laws against it.
As it stands though, I'd rather they cure all the mental issues first, like all the autism spectrum disorders. In this day and age I face less flak for being bisexual than I do for having Asperger's. It's still considered perfectly fine to discriminate against the spacky retards after all. No special laws against it.
Cure is a pretty loaded way of putting it, if a method for someone to change their sexuality or gender identity that adults could choose to have it would be up to them. I wouldn't disagree with that, it would have to be their own choice though and not something parents should be able to force upon kids or anything.
Sounds like a waste of tax payers money to me. It's not like we need more fertile couples, and as for not having to grow up in a world that's biased against you, this could also be achieved through working toward a more tolerant society.
As a side note: God DAMN there are a lot of people in this thread who have no clue what transgender/sexualism is...
...why would anybody support a "cure" for something like this?
Seriously why use the word "cure" at all. It should be very obvious that that kind of language would give horrible implications. You wouldn't be solving anything by heterofying gay people, you'd just be making the world less diverse, which would be a bad thing on its own.
Aside from that the only thing that could ever eradicate somebodies homosexual tendencies completely would have to eradicate all their sexual feelings.
Seriously why use the word "cure" at all. It should be very obvious that that kind of language would give horrible implications. You wouldn't be solving anything by heterofying gay people, you'd just be making the world less diverse, which would be a bad thing on its own.
Aside from that the only thing that could ever eradicate somebodies homosexual tendencies completely would have to eradicate all their sexual feelings.
I'll treat this like I would a "if you had a button that would eliminate race, would you press it" hypothetical.
Yeah, I'd press it. Not because I think that there's anything wrong with homosexuality or transexuality, but because it would speed up the whole "let's just get along" thing if we had one less difference to divide us.
(Plus, I'm still not convinced that sexuality even EXISTS, and believe that most of us would be bisexual if we were raised in a cultural-less society).
Transexuality is a bit like anorexia to me (the mental part, not the "not eating to make the mental part feel better" part), in that your mind is telling you something that your body just doesn't agree with. I obviously would want to get rid of it so that people feel like they're made for their bodies and not like they were born into the wrong one.
Yeah, I'd press it. Not because I think that there's anything wrong with homosexuality or transexuality, but because it would speed up the whole "let's just get along" thing if we had one less difference to divide us.
(Plus, I'm still not convinced that sexuality even EXISTS, and believe that most of us would be bisexual if we were raised in a cultural-less society).
Transexuality is a bit like anorexia to me (the mental part, not the "not eating to make the mental part feel better" part), in that your mind is telling you something that your body just doesn't agree with. I obviously would want to get rid of it so that people feel like they're made for their bodies and not like they were born into the wrong one.
You act as if there's not any social pressure on homosexuals now. Homosexuality is actually a crime in a lot of countries and even in our so called tolerant world we're quite intolerant towards homosexuals.Silvanus said:
There are lots of people abused and bullied because they are homosexual. People commit suicide over this, people are excluded from their community and I've seen a girl who killed her grandparents after a long period of abuse. There's straight camps which is basically abuse camps. People get treated with electroshocks as if that does anything good. There are too many who are ashamed of who they are today even without a cure. A cure might shift the balance a little towards the intolerant side, but at least there would be a way out other than faking heterosexuality, suicide or murder.
Being gay isn't immoral, it isn't a crime, it isn't a disease and I don't think it's against nature in any way. It is however a source for a whole lot of abuse. Would a cure really be that bad? I would prefer if we could just be tolerant towards people no matter their preference though.
Now seeing the OP was talking about a vaccine rather than a cure I don't think that would be that much better. It puts a lot of pressure on the mother and it puts all the blame on the mother. It also removes the option completely from the person whose life we change even if the option was just an illusion as it was in he case of the cure.
Because they're both sexual preferences that cannot be chosen. Your move.Johnny Novgorod said:
I fail to see your point, paedophilia is not the same as child molestation because the latter is a choice that they make. Would you associated that Heterosexuals rape? No.Harrowdown said:
I am disappoint!
7 pages and the latest is not incoherent homophobic/transphobic rage. I am also slightly amazed.
Has the escapist moved on? Have we matured?
OT: No, Hell to the no. Only things that need to be cured should be cured. The LGBTQ community does not need to be cured. The society that victimises them needs to be cured. The fact that someones sexuality is seen to be an issue needs to be fixed.
"A MTF Transgendered person is just a man with a mutilated penis."
7 pages and the latest is not incoherent homophobic/transphobic rage. I am also slightly amazed.
Has the escapist moved on? Have we matured?
OT: No, Hell to the no. Only things that need to be cured should be cured. The LGBTQ community does not need to be cured. The society that victimises them needs to be cured. The fact that someones sexuality is seen to be an issue needs to be fixed.
Yeah, you sorta get used to that. Gotta remember, in the words of some twat a few days agoSushiJaguar said:
"A MTF Transgendered person is just a man with a mutilated penis."
A mate of mine and I had a talk about this. He said if they found the "gay gene" he'd support methods that prevent it from being passed on but NEVER removed from those already alive. I was against it because if it happened history books would become a warning of the "horrible plague" of homosexuality that finally got stomped out which will make other peoples personal lives looked at as yet another "plague" because they're different to others.
