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I don't think it works that way.. (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

(In response to 6/7 men who lost their penis at birth and were raised as girls ending up identifying as heterosexual men as adults. The last identifying as a bisexual woman.)

As far as I am aware, the evidence seems to point to both gender identity and sexual orientation as being biologically fixed and genetic, so it's not surprising when you take a cis boy and raise them as a girl they end up transitioning back to being boys.

What people don't seem to appreciate or understand is this is pretty much what is happening to trans people, and the outcomes of doing this to cis people are similar to the outcomes we see in trans people (read: lots of drug abuse, self-harm, depression, anxiety, and suicides).

[–] Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Indeed, in the paper it is used to dispute the bullshit claim that exposure to non-hetero media can turn your kid gay. I found the way they stated it interesting.