Transgender and gay peaople have something wrong in their heads
The Science of Gaydar
As a presence in the world—a body hanging from a subway strap or pressed into an elevator, a figure crossing the street—I am neither markedly masculine nor notably effeminate. Nor am I typically perceived as androgynous, not in my uniform of Diesels and boots, not even when I was younger and favored dangling earrings and bright Jack Purcells. But most people immediately read me (correctly) as same-sex attracted. It takes only a glance to make my correctness obvious. I comprehend this from strangers who find queer people offensive enough to elicit a remark—catcalls from cab windows, to employ a recent example—as well as from countless casual social engagements in which people easily take for granted my orientation, no sensitive gaydar necessary. I’m not so much out-of-the-closet as “self-evident,” to leverage Quentin Crisp’s statement, although being of a younger generation, I can’t subscribe to his doctrine that it is a kind of disfigurement requiring lavender hair rinse.
I once placed a personal ad in which I described myself as “gay-acting/gay-appearing,” partly as a jab at my peers who prefer to be thought of as “str8” but mostly because it’s just who I am. Maybe a better way to phrase it would have
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The health effects of same-sex sexual conduct are many. The widespread, government, and judiciary are being lead to consider that same-sex sexuality is a normal variant with interactions and results equal to heterosexual sexuality. However, this position runs opposite to professional literature and the track record of history.
By any repeatable measure, the percentage of the population identifying as homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, or trans (GLBT) is small. The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that men having sex with men (MSM) comprise approximately two percent of the population, or four percent of the U.S male population.1 The University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center has conducted surveys regarding homosexuality since the belated 1980s and deems that approximately two percent of the U.S. population identifies as either gay, dyke, or bisexual.2 The 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth conducted by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics found that among women ages 18 to 44, 3.5 percent identified as bisexual with 1.4 percent identifying as homosexual, gay, or homosexual woman. Among men of the same age
“I was born in the wrong body”. We commonly hear this and similar phrases to describe what it feels like to be transgender. These sound-bites roll off the tongue with ease and acquire been repeated so many times that it is easy to believe they are true; that the brain is indeed gendered and mismatches can occur between the brain and the body. However, there is absolutely no credible scientific evidence to sustain this idea. This page will discuss the current scientific understanding in this area of brain research.
The idea that children are born with an innate ‘gender identity’ which develops pre-natally and is impervious to environmental influence is not supported by any credible science.
Body and mind are interconnected; scientists contain found no separate innate ‘gender’ area of the brain which is fixed at birth. Children’s brains are very plastic; they develop through interaction with people and the environment and they are constantly absorbing information and influences which shape them.
Research in neuroscience consistently confirms that although sex-based differences be in regions of the brain, there is no 100% ‘
A study made in Mexico proves that the transgender is a condition, not a mental disease
Mexico is the first country to manner a field research that provides scientific evidence that gender nonconforming is a condition and not a mental disease, concluded scientists led by Mexico´s National Institute of Psychiatry (INP by its initials in Spanish) "Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz" of the Ministry of Health of this country.
The conceptualization of gender nonconforming is included as a mental disease at the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Group (WHO), with the results of the investigation it is pretended that transsexual do not be part of the mental pathologies anymore.
This study conducted in collaboration with the Specialized Clinic Condesa in Mexico Town and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, shows that the distress (stress caused by social rejection and violence) and dysfunction suffered by these people, who in many occasions lead to suffer a mental disorder, are a result of stigmatization and the maltreatment they face in different social spheres.
This was made widespread at a push conference presided by the director general o
Mental health findings for LGBTQ+ Australians
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