Sex Erased
(Chronicles magazine
published this as its lead letter in the May 2019 issue.)
George McCartney is usually right on in his cultural
analyses of current films, but he made a couple of statements in his review of
“Boy Erased” (“Mortal Coils,” Jan. 2019) that must be addressed.
“If homosexuality is innate, as recent research suggests,”
he wrote, “then what right do heterosexuals have to deride people who manifest
its characteristics?”
About 12 years ago, the Culture and Family Institute of
Concerned Women for America published a paper (“Born or Bred?”). It crunched all the extant studies that
allegedly showed a genetic cause for homosexuality. In every case, the studies
were shabby, loaded and written by people seeking to advance the notion that
homosexuality is inborn. None had been
replicated, which is essential for scientific reliability. They amounted to
scientific fraud, just as the old Evelyn Hooker psychological studies from the
1950s were misreported as the opposite of what she actually found, and the
Kinsey reports of 1948 and 1953 have been exposed as ideologically driven and
fundamentally false. I know of no recent
studies that are scientifically rigorous that validate the theory that some
people are “born gay.”
Further, Mr. McCartney wrote of reparative therapy that
helps clients recover their birth sexuality that, “Further reading, however,
has persuaded me to doubt the widespread efficacy of any such therapy.”
Again, what sources is he relying upon? I know and work with
many people who have benefited from counseling to reduce or reverse homosexual
inclinations. The Left has recast
traditional counseling for unwanted same-sex desires as “conversion therapy,”
falsely implying that it involves electric shock and other techniques that
psychologists abandoned decades ago.
Lawmakers in 15 states, having been given a false picture, have banned
such counseling, mostly for minors. New
York state became the latest on January 25, following that state’s enactment of
a law allowing abortion right up to a baby’s due date. The culture of death loves abortion, along
with the idea that people – including children -- can be steered into
homosexual behavior or transgenderism – but never away from it.
The Left is working hard to create the impression that our
God-given, male-female complementarity is optional and even a matter of
bigotry. The ultimate goal of cultural
Marxists is to create a system whereby sexual chaos reigns, the family and religion
are weakened, and the state steps in to pick up the pieces. A new study shows that 2 percent of school
kids now identify as the opposite sex.
Does anyone believe that this has nothing to do with the fierce promotion
of transgenderism in our culture today?
Mr. McCartney writes thoughtful reviews. So, I hope that he considers broadening his
knowledge on this issue to include materials from the Alliance for Therapeutic
Choice and Scientific Integrity (ATCSI), the Restored Hope Network (an umbrella
group of ex-gay and ex-trans ministries), Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and
Gays (PFOX) and other non-PC sources.
Regina Griggs
Executive Director. PFOX
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