QuoteMs Tan and those who share her views on this subject must be reminded that refuting one's sexuality at birth is condemned by all religions as well as all civilised and decent traditions in millenniums of recorded history.
Countries around the world which have legalised homosexual and transsexual behaviour have consequently suffered a very steep decline in moral standards that in turn has led to the breakdown of the solid family structure and the isolation of the individual.
It is an inevitable part of imperial pretension. Empires sough the seeds of their own decline as they are building. But, one's sexuality and gender are hardly the harbingers of cultural decline. Instead look to the wealth that flows into said empire and the way it's ruling and supervisory classes handle that. They tend to become lax and more interested in making a trove than in maintain whatever vestiges of political and economic power they onece had. The entire "Reagan Revolution" was a case in point. The tax-cuts simply made it more efficacious for large companies to buy-out smaller ones rather than pouring money into their existing infrastructures and plants.
The flow of wealth became more and more restricted and the "middle-class" began to disappear. Along with them went the dedication to "service" in the hopes of making it to a place on the pinnacle.
Happened in USA, Spain, England, France, Rome, Greece, Carthage, Crete, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Babylon, various Chinese dynasties and Japan. It invariably occurs. It's a part, evidently, of human nature to increase luxury and decrease commitment to more ascetic ways that were valued in the building of the empires. And it will continue to happen, long after we are dead.
Transsexuality and homosexuality have nothing at all to do with it.
Nichole
