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[quote=PYGRANT,255561]Thank you very much for your thoughts - you are right, the image presented in the Toronto parade is very different from those my gay neighbors present. In fact, I think they sometimes overly restrict their behavior because they are afraid of being viewed as different and immoral and afraid also of the social effects on their children. I agree that the scientific evidence at present does seem to indicate that that homosexuality and gender roles appear to be greatly influenced by both genetics and interuterine environment (e.g. a female fetus as a triplet who is situated between the two male fetuses in utero is much more likely to display the physical activity level and "tomboyish" behavir typical of males). However, these are all points on a continuum, most tomboys grow up to be perfectly feminine and normal in their gender development. Some differerences are genetically based, but have no practical human significance (e.g. asians as a group tend to be very homogenous in certain features (hair and eye color)) and in group differences such as the number of multiple births (If my data is correct, asians have the lowest number of multiple births of any geographical group, if hormone treatments are excluded). These are differences, not necessarily illnesses. I don't equate "persuading you" as being the same thing as factual reality. Maybe I could persuade, and then we might both be incorrect. What I am saying is that many homosexuals function very well in most instances (remarkably well, considering the face and attitudes that society presents to them - society's attitudes can be internalised in a dramatically harmful fashion. For instance, there is a substantial difference in performance between African-American and Hispanic-American children on one hand, and caucasion American children on the other, in performance on so called "intelligence" tests, and particularly in certain areas of academic progress (generally mathamatics & basic sciences). There is also a very large body of evidence showing that African-American and Hispanic-American children perform much better on these tests simply by persuading or misinforming them on the nature of the test: e.g. the gap between them and their caucasian peers narrows dramatically (and in certain environments pretty much dissapears)) if the children are told that what is a math test is really a personality test to see how they approach problems, and the specific correct answers are not important. How do we know that much of the "pathological" behavior we see from gays is not the result of their social environment or of how others treat themm?[/quote]
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