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News and Events => Opinions & Editorials => Topic started by: Natasha on February 19, 2009, 12:18:46 AM

Title: Appearances can be deceiving
Post by: Natasha on February 19, 2009, 12:18:46 AM
Appearances can be deceiving

http://jessicalive.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/appearances-can-be-deceiving/ (http://jessicalive.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/appearances-can-be-deceiving/)
2/18/09

The first thing I want to point out is what Stephen Whittle, the current president of the World Professional Association on Transgender Health (WPATH) has said:

"I don't care whether I was 'born this way' or 'became this way'. The question of the 'gay gene' or the '->-bleeped-<- brain' is a potentially frightening route to another eugenics programme to destroy the brilliance of difference in the world, and the sooner we reject these projects the better."

I would gloss Whittle's comment by saying in our culture/society if there is a cause there is a cure; I don't want to be cured, either.