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That’s what the religious (un)right would like us to believe. But if we examine our culture there's overwhelming and persuasive pressure to be heterosexual. From birth we’re saturated with heterosexism, usually beginning with our parents (unless one's parents are gay!). And the media: couples are almost always portrayed as male and female in magazines, movies and TV, though gays and lesbians are receiving increasingly more exposure from cable's The L-Word, to public TV's In the Life to network’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Queer young people tend to hide their sexual orientation (depending on how liberal the area), sometimes even dating the opposite sex to appear normal. But a more important aspect to staying in the closet is to prevent the ostracizing, taunts, bashings, even murder that can occur at the hands of homophobic people and there's lots of them. This is a very real danger and a sad fact about the prejudices of our society—it's an updated version of the discrimination and lynching of blacks. Parents sometimes try to push their children into a heterosexual identity and, unless they know and accept their child’s homosexuality, refuse to acknowledge it or reject them. An unmarried woman in her 30s is sometimes looked-down on. “When are you going to marry and have children?” family and friends will prod. Sex researcher
Alfred Kinsey developed a scale measuring sexual orientation,
now known as the The same is true of gender—it's a spectrum: we've all seen the effeminate male or masculine woman. A common mistake is to equate sex with gender—they're separate and distinct. Sex is male and female, or a blending of the two in intersexed people. Gender is where one presents on the masculine to feminine scale and is a social construct that places men and women into distinct categories, each with its own attributes such as dress, hair style, mannerisms, walk, etc. The West particularly has strict gender constructs and often ridicules, or acts negatively toward, gender-variant folks. The retards of the religious (un)right think transgendered people are trying to 'deconstruct biological gender.' Gender is not biological for reasons stated and we have no desire to deconstruct gender, even if that were possible. We do want to live our lives without transphobia and homophobia and have better things to do than try to get boys to wear dresses. Genetic sex is not just XX or XY - there are many variations such as XXX, XXY, etc. Some are even born a phenotype male with XX genes and vice-versa. The Bush administration's 'Defense of Marriage Act' is an attempt to codify discrimination into the US Constitution. No matter how one feels about same-sex marriage, denying one class of people the same rights granted to another is in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection of the laws! If wanting equal rights means the end of homophobic / transphobic attacks, discrimination, ostracization and having the same contractual marriage rights as heterosexuals is an agenda, then so be it. When Negros were fighting for equal rights that must have been the African American agenda. Of course, homosexuals are pedophiles, luring unsuspecting boys into the 'gay lifestyle' and our children are being recruited into being gays, lesbians and transgenders in schools across the country. And I just saw a big, white rabbit carrying a pocket watch exclaiming, “I’m late, I’m late!” When I hear Christians spouting off about the homosexual agenda, this is much ado about nothing. The heterosexual agenda is more persuasive and powerful, along with the religious (un)right's anti-gay / anti-trans agenda.
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