Someone needs to do more extensive research into this from a transgender population standpoint. My feeling is that sexual preference is both innate in some instances and learned/adapted in others. I realize that the latter presents a big problem at times, because it sets up the idea that it could be unlearned or changed.
One of the reasons that Iran is transgender friendly and has some of the highest rates of medical transition treatment in the world, is that some religious body there decided that it was a preferable to transition someone that expresses that they are gay, rather than actually accept gay people.. Not so good of an idea in many of those cases I'm sure. In parts of Asia gender variance and being gay are treated as the same thing. They assume that every man that crossdresses or every Mtf transgender woman likes men and there are stories of doctors being very confused when they learn that is not the case.
The reason i bring these up, is these are ways that the "change" idea is dangerous, but so is the assumption that everyone is immovably whatever their DNA programed them to be.
Was i programed in the womb to like men and women? Maybe, but i can definitely see the sliding dial of attraction to men and women, move up and down in my lifetime and it has moved since i have been on hormones. I have seen too much anecdotal evidence in others to not believe the same is true elsewhere.
