OPINION:
It is clear that what leftists call “hate speech” is often better characterized as a reality check.
In their recent op-eds, Robert Knight (“How fear of phobias skews reality,” Web, Aug. 31) and Everett Piper (“Devastating consequences of abandoning truth,” Web, Aug. 31) call for truth about what I call gender identity disorder. Where is the conservative press when it comes to explaining this? The phenomenon has an explanation.
See Kenneth Zucker and Susan Bradley’s “Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents” and Richard Cohen’s “Coming Out Straight,” Janelle Hallman’s “The Heart of Female Same-Sex Attraction,” Joseph Nicolosi’s “A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality” and the website of the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, TherapeuticChoice.com.
Parental causation of homosexual or gender identity disorders in children — and “asexual” outcomes, for that matter — should be discussed frankly by conservatives in the public square. We should not hold back for any reason, not the least of which is the wish to spare the feelings of guilty Republican parents, such as Lynne and Dick Cheney, mother and father of “lesbian” Mary Cheney. (The parenting Ms. Cheney’s sister, Liz Cheney, received was somewhat different.)
First Amendment and sociological arguments won’t do. We need to make the case against bogus equality itself and base it on depth psychology and its politics. “Queer folk” are made, not born.
SHARON KASS
Washington
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