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LGBT Group Threatens Johns Hopkins Over Report That Science Doesn't Show People Are Born Gay, Transgender
2016-10-21
[ChristianPost] The Human Rights Campaign, America's largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, has threatened to penalize
Interesting word choice.
Johns Hopkins University if it does not denounce a report from two of the institution's scholars which concludes that there is little scientific evidence that people are born gay or transgender.

In the special report for The New Atlantis titled Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences, Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer, a scholar in residence at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Dr. Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences also at John Hopkins School of Medicine conclude there is very little evidence supporting the "born that way" and other theories on sexual orientation.

"Some of the most widely held views about sexual orientation, such as the 'born that way' hypothesis, simply are not supported by science. The literature in this area does describe a small ensemble of biological differences between non-heterosexuals and heterosexuals, but those biological differences are not sufficient to predict sexual orientation, the ultimate test of any scientific finding," the report said. "The strongest statement that science offers to explain sexual orientation is that some biological factors appear, to an unknown extent, to predispose some individuals to a non-heterosexual orientation."

When it comes to transgenderism, the study explained the phenomenon is even more complex.
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#7  May as well sue to make Pi = exactly 3.00000

Good luck with that.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-10-21 23:38  

#6  For Progressives, the evil hypocritical bastards, science stop where their agenda and feelings begin.
Posted by: OldSpook   2016-10-21 22:27  

#5  The Johns Hopkins people were the first to do sex change operations. But being good scientists, they followed the progress of their patients for decades to see what the long term results would be; they concluded that doing the surgery was causing serious harm to those who asked for it, by ignoring the underlying problems that led to the desire for such drastic body sculpture. They've been trying to get the word out ever since.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-10-21 15:07  

#4  Up until the time of the Stonewall riots in the '60's (?) all this crap was classed as mental illness. The change was due to politics not science, nothing has changed except that the victimology has gotten stronger as the need for it has lessened.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-10-21 08:18  

#3  But can they still claim victim hood?
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-10-21 08:06  

#2  some biological factors appear, to an unknown extent, to predispose some individuals to a non-heterosexual orientation.

That's not truthy enough? Not exactly what they wanted to hear? Why, those Hopkins folks are probably climate change deniers, too!
Posted by: Bobby   2016-10-21 07:33  

#1  overdue for a whiff of grapeshot?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-10-21 01:25  

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