The idea that we were "born this way" has never sat right with me for a number of reasons, so I'm glad to see this article call some attention to it. In particu

The idea that we were "born this way" has never sat right with me for a number of reasons, so I'm glad to see this article call some attention to it. In particular, the insistence that we were "born this way" and thus our gender or sexual orientation cannot be changed is underlined by the idea that being queer is a negative thing. I see no inherent reason for that to be the case, and would prefer to live in a society that didn't really care what gender people identified as, nor what genders/sexes they're attracted to. What does it matter whether we were "born this way" or not? What's wrong with choosing to be this way? n.b. as the article noted, we obviously can't change our gender and sexual orientation at will; I want to be clear that that's not what I'm claiming.