Some folks say that the genitalia the person was born with was "what G-d intended". I'm sorry, but when did G-d come to you and tell you exactly what was "intended" for that person? Besides, if a woman is born with small boobs, isn't that also "what G-d intended"? Why should they be allowed to change that? If a person has a big nose, isn’t that “what G-d intended”? Based on right wing logic, why should anyone be allowed any sort of “cosmetic” surgery? If a person gets cancer, why is that surgically removed? Isn't that also "what G-d intended"? Some folks feel that “what G-d didn’t intend” is that which is distasteful to them - meaning anything LGBT.
One person asked me why LGBT people don’t “keep their problem to themselves”. Most LGBT people would love to "keep their problem to themselves" and would be quite happy if non-LGBT did not discriminate against them, did not abuse them, and did not try to pass laws making things harder for them. The percentage of LGBT who are beaten, driven to suicide, or thrown out by their family is far too high. I suppose some folks would prefer that LGBT folks just "stay in the closet", but the day for that is past. LGBT are not asking you to love their lives or how they live them, neither are they asking you to “approve” their lives, but rather not to make their lives harder. They are asking for the same rights as any other human being: to live freely, not having to hide who or what they are; and to not suffer abuse because of who they are.
People tell me that being LGBT is a “choice”. Why would someone “choose” to be LGBT, when all too often that means physical, mental, and emotional abuse because of that? Why would someone choose to be thrown out of their homes, rejected by their parents, forced into “conversion therapy”, because of a “choice”? When LGBT youth are significantly more likely to be homeless, and significantly more likely to commit suicide, why would someone “choose” that? For many years, LGBT people pretended to be straight, rather than suffer what comes from being openly LBGT. In truth, it makes far more sense that one would be LGBT because one feels strongly that is what one truly is. Some folks think it was “choice” because the LGBT “chose” to no longer keep living a lie.
There have been studies done of identical twins. Those found that if one twin was LGBT, the other was significantly more likely to be so, as well. It was neither an absolute lock in, nor random chance. That seems to say that there is a genetic component, but that other environmental factors contribute as well. What those other factors are, and how they contribute, has yet to be determined however.
