highwaystar101 said:
primogen18 said:
highwaystar101 said:
SciFiBoy2.0 said:
highwaystar101 said:
*Sigh* It's not about being gay, it's about preventative treatment. Dr New wants to create this drug so that children don't have to be afflicted with some of the complicastions that come from congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
I don't think it's about "curing" lesbianism at all, it's about reducing a side effect from the condition. It wont make them 100% heterosexual.
I know the advent of "engineering" humans is scary, but we already tamper with life to this extent with things like hormone replacement therapy.
Whilst I support their campaign for equal rights and support their plight, I feel that sometimes LGBT groups can go a little overboard without fully understanding the situation (mind you, that could be said of any campaign group really (sorry if I have offended anyone)).
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so, its just removing a potentionaly harmful thing then? and the link to orientation is an unfortunate coincidence?
I dont really know enough about this tbh, but that seems to be what youre saying yes?
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No, it's not an unfortunate coincidence, it's a symptom of the condition. A child born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia will likely be a lesbian, but given this treatment their orientation potential will return to be more "normal" (towards that of the general population).
It is removing a harmful thing, but the harmful things includes a much higher tendency towards becoming homosexual.
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Your last statement really kills your entire post...
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Why? Homosexuality under regular conditions is a perfectly fine thing, not harmful at all. But when it comes as part of a condition which affects person's sexuality in such a manner as CAH it is a harmful thing to their well being.
Basically the homosexuality in CAH isn't really natural, it's a symptom of the condition, and therefore different from regular homosexuality. It's not the same.
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Homosexuality SHOULDN'T be harmful at all.
But I'd think you'd be hard pressed to find more then a few Homosexuals who can say they wouldn't of avoided harmful and hurtful situations if they were straight.
Even if you do get past that... there are some health issues.
For example, Gay men are I'd assume much more likely to take part in anal sex then straight men... esepiecally receiving. Anal sex is riskier when it comes to passing on diseases and such... receptive Anal sex much more so.
Additionally you do have the aforementioned smaller dating pool... which in of itself is likely quite troublesome.
For what it's worth though, I do get your greater point though. For people who don't get it... it's basically the same if people who were born with Asthma were always gay, but not all gay people had Asthma.
Considering the negative effects... as in soley the Astma effects... it makes sense to get rid of the Astma and as such, also the gayness.
