dsgrue3 said:
This is quite amusing. I hope you aren't suggesting the obsolete 1970s notion that it's a brain disorder. Homosexuality, much like being left-handed, is controlled by epigenetic markers which promote a predisposition. So you are also inadvertently suggesting that being left-handed is an illness. I'm really not sure what to say to you at this point. |
You're talking against facts here because you hope that to be the case, while we in fact don't know that to be the case.
I personally, partially based on my experience as a medical doctor and because there are studies that suggest it, believe that homosexuality largely is caused by dysfunctional hormonal regulation during embryonal development, which would be enough to meet the criteria for it to be classified as a "brain disorder" (that's how diagnostics work).
I do believe that some homosexuality is programmed and even selected for at the genetical level too, but we don't have clear evidence for that yet.
Note that I don't think this is dramatic in any way because "disorder" doesn't automatically mean something can be or should be "cured".
