Are people born transgender?

Mar 22, 2018 by

by Michael Brown, LifeSite.

Two recent headlines proclaim, “Transgender people are born that way, a new study has found,” and “Scientists uncover 20 geneslinked to being transgender – supporting claims the condition has a physical basis.”

What are we to make of this?

Before we evaluate these announcements, it’s important that we understand that we are not discussing the question of people who are intersex, referring to those who have a biological or chromosomal abnormality in terms of their sex. By definition, people who are intersex are born that way.

It’s also important that we remember the many sensational headlines that proclaimed that a gay gene (or the like) had been discovered. Every few years, a new “discovery” would be made about “proving” that people are born gay, only to be replaced by the latest “discovery,” none of which proved definitive.

Back in February 1992, a cover story for Newsweek featured the face of an infant and the question “Is This Child Gay?” In July 1993, the New York Times ran a story titled “Report Suggests Homosexuality Is Linked to Genes.”

Yet today, 25 years later, even left-leaning, LGBT-affirming organizations like the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association do not make the claim that people are born gay. In their view, the causes of same-sex attractions are complex, including both nature and nurture.

Not only this, but Dr. Lisa Diamond, a lesbian feminist psychologist who is also a highly respected member of the American Psychological Association, has spent years refuting the idea that homosexuality is innate and immutable.

As expressed by clinical psychologist Dr. Laura A. Haynes, through her publications and YouTube lectures, Diamond is proclaiming that “[t]he battle to disprove ‘Born that way and can’t change’ is now over, and [Diamond] is telling LGBT activists to stop promoting the myth.”

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