Hot take: research into the biological causes of queerness is eugenics.
In Europe, it's standard practice to screen fetuses for conditions like Down Syndrome. When its is detected, most parents opt to abort, which is legal and free in much of the continent. This has led to something like a 90% reduction in the number of cases. Probably people with Down will be extinct in Europe within our lifetimes.
Obviously being LGBT isn't the same as Down Syndrome, except that a hell of a lot of people think that it is. I'm pretty sure at least half of cis people would abort their trans baby. If there's a specific measurable cause of queerness, or at least some forms, and some scientist discovers it, why wouldn't they use it for extermination? This would pretty much be a dream come true for the right.
I feel pretty confident that the endpoint of such research would be "it's essentially random because it gets sorted out by your head and hormones during critical development years", but you're 100% correct that if they found a gene for it people would test and selectively abort it. We've already seen what happens when a society with access to abortion creates uneven pressure on what kind of kids you should have - China during the One Child policy - so until the day comes that the entire population is totally fine with having an LGBT kid it's knowledge that would do more harm than good.
:10000-com:% agree. Being obsessed with a “rational explanation” of queerness comes from viewing cishet as default. That belief in CompHet is founded in the cultural norms of white supremacy and colonialism.
Possible correlations between genetics and queerness is an interesting question in a complete vacuum, but the way that information will inevitably be weaponized regardless of the outcome is not worth having one’s curiosity piqued.
I’d feel differently if we had a country with a DOTP that upheld queer rights as a part of its party line and protected queer people from genocide. We’re not there… yet.
Also, a lot of the people I’ve seen who are obsessed with that question also happen to be bigoted freaks having a closeted existential crisis about their own sexual orientation / gender identity.
I had an argument with a cis transmedicalist once who eventually admitted they were only invested in their truscum beliefs because of their own search for a “scientific” definition of their bisexuality. They were, unsurprisingly, trying to suppress / “cure” their attraction to multiple genders.
Convo ended when I told him the best cure for his emotional turmoil would be to accept himself and suck a dick when he wanted to suck a dick.
trying to suppress / “cure” their attraction to multiple genders.
I really hate that people can be convinced they need to agonize over noticing more than one gender of cutie. It's unilaterally positive without that inflicted agony
Hot take: research into the biological causes of queerness is eugenics.
In Europe, it's standard practice to screen fetuses for conditions like Down Syndrome. When its is detected, most parents opt to abort, which is legal and free in much of the continent. This has led to something like a 90% reduction in the number of cases. Probably people with Down will be extinct in Europe within our lifetimes.
Obviously being LGBT isn't the same as Down Syndrome, except that a hell of a lot of people think that it is. I'm pretty sure at least half of cis people would abort their trans baby. If there's a specific measurable cause of queerness, or at least some forms, and some scientist discovers it, why wouldn't they use it for extermination? This would pretty much be a dream come true for the right.
I feel pretty confident that the endpoint of such research would be "it's essentially random because it gets sorted out by your head and hormones during critical development years", but you're 100% correct that if they found a gene for it people would test and selectively abort it. We've already seen what happens when a society with access to abortion creates uneven pressure on what kind of kids you should have - China during the One Child policy - so until the day comes that the entire population is totally fine with having an LGBT kid it's knowledge that would do more harm than good.
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well there isn't going to be, because what is queer and straight are socially defined and necessarily fluid. they will try though, of course.
:10000-com:% agree. Being obsessed with a “rational explanation” of queerness comes from viewing cishet as default. That belief in CompHet is founded in the cultural norms of white supremacy and colonialism.
Possible correlations between genetics and queerness is an interesting question in a complete vacuum, but the way that information will inevitably be weaponized regardless of the outcome is not worth having one’s curiosity piqued.
I’d feel differently if we had a country with a DOTP that upheld queer rights as a part of its party line and protected queer people from genocide. We’re not there… yet.
:sicko-fem: :trans-hammer-sickle:
Also, a lot of the people I’ve seen who are obsessed with that question also happen to be bigoted freaks having a closeted existential crisis about their own sexual orientation / gender identity.
I had an argument with a cis transmedicalist once who eventually admitted they were only invested in their truscum beliefs because of their own search for a “scientific” definition of their bisexuality. They were, unsurprisingly, trying to suppress / “cure” their attraction to multiple genders.
Convo ended when I told him the best cure for his emotional turmoil would be to accept himself and suck a dick when he wanted to suck a dick.
I really hate that people can be convinced they need to agonize over noticing more than one gender of cutie. It's unilaterally positive without that inflicted agony
Internalized bigotry is a fuck