Have We Not Established That Being LGBT Is NOT A Choice?

You know what I don't understand? I don't understand why there is a segment of our population who still insists that being LGBT is some type of choice and can be changed. Today, I shall share two tragic examples of what can happen when this type of thinking prevails.

In the first example, a young boy who exhibited "feminine" characteristics underwent experimental therapy to make him more masculine. Arguably, the end result was the young man's suicide in the prime of his life.

Turn The Sissy Into A Man!!!!!

So.............this anti-gay activist and "therapist", who in a delicious and almost expected turn of events was later observed with a male escort, feels he can "cure" your gay son by denying him attention from his mother, having his father savagely beat him when his behavior is not masculine enough, and other barbaric treatment. The man is without question subhuman.

Now, I suppose the case could be made that this "therapy" took place in the 1970s, and we have come a long way since then. The problem with that is that Mr. Rekers is still looked upon as an expert and leading voice by some in the anti-gay movement. It is certainly interesting how they seem to be able to overlook HIS apparent homosexual tendencies, but I digress. The other issue I have with this is that "Kraig" was hailed as a success story by the anti-gay crowd until the news about his suicide broke. Much like prisoners who are tortured, I would imagine that if any of us were subjected to the savagery that Kirk Murphy endured, we would do or say virtually anything to make it stop, and I fully suspect that we would carry the psychological scars long after the physical ones healed.

The other example involves a transgender prisoner who has attempted to castrate herself on more than one occasion due to the Virginia Department of Corrections refusing her requests for sexual reassignment surgery.

Denial of Surgery Leads to Self-Mutilation

So..................... Let's see if we understand this case. Prisoners are rightfully provided with health care except in this instance where sexual reassignment surgeries are still widely viewed as expensive vanity projects for the least vocal letter in the LGBT community, and not seen as the absolute medical necessity that they are. Nobody chops off their own penis in the face of potential death on a whim. Ophelia De’lonta, like thousands of others, was driven to action because she suffers from an unmet medical need.

27,000 Americans have gender identity disorder, resulting in 500-750 sexual reassignment surgeries each year. For every person with access to these oftentimes life-saving treatments, many are forced to go without.

“Everybody has the right to have their health care needs met, whether they are in prison or out on the streets. People in the prisons who have bad hearts, hips or knees have surgery to repair those things,” Michelle Kosilek told The Associated Press in a recent phone interview from a state prison in Norfolk, Mass.

“My medical needs are no less important or more important than the person in the cell next to me.”

Federal courts have said prisons must provide adequate medical care, and that they must protect inmates from themselves. But correctional officials and lawmakers balk at using taxpayer money for sex-change operations that can cost up to $20,000.

Again, ladies and gentlemen, I think the root cause of this matter is the belief that being LGBT is a choice; as if these ladies chose to be the way they are, and in a male correctional facility no less. Can you only imagine the harassment, unwelcome advances, assaults, and rapes they must endure on a daily basis?

While these examples may be extreme, they speak to the larger issue of sexual orientation not being a choice; and for those who suggest it is I would like for you to answer one simple question for me...............

When did you decide or choose to be straight?

Peace and love, my brothers and sisters.