by Lynette Alice

Created on: June 19, 2008   Last Updated: January 29, 2009

When did you choose to be straight? Can you recall the instance, the day, or the motivating factor to choose that as your sexual identity assuming you are heterosexual? I'm not just a lesbian, but a transsexual lesbian and I will be the first to admit I cannot recall the day I made that "choice." The reason I cannot is because it isn't a choice, it is an inborn part of self identity. The only choice I or any homosexual person has regarding our sexuality is to embrace or deny it. That is it.

Few topics elicit more heated debate than whether or not homosexuality is a choice or if it is an inborn trait, nature or nurture. Aside from politics and religion, homosexuality may be the hot button topic of the next quarter century. Still the question persists as to whether or not homosexuality is natural.

For starters there are thirty eight variations of the word "natural." For our purposes however we will use the most common definition which is "existing in or formed by nature." Ask yourself these questions and answer honestly. Can you as an individual be persuaded to freely change your sexual identity? Have you as an individual been "recruited" or pressured to become a homosexual? Would you as an individual willingly make yourself a member of one of the most misunderstood, marginalized, stigmatized, and in all honesty wrongly vilified groups of people on the planet? As the word in question here is natural, are homosexuals conceived and born naturally existing in this physical plane, or are they otherworldly beings beamed down from the mother ship? And even if homosexuals were from another planet, wouldn't they still be of nature? The answer is undeniably yes.

You cannot change who you are attracted to anymore than you can change the Earth's gravitational pull. I have never in my life heard of homosexuals going door to door recruiting people to join the gang like religious or political groups do. It just doesn't work that way. Likewise unless you are a glutton for punishment you wouldn't willingly place yourself in a potentially disadvantaged position when it comes to functioning in every aspect of your life, primarily the social and financial arenas. Would you in all honesty willingly and consciously choose to be scorned by society, denied basic civil rights, risk losing family and friends, and be subject to violence? Homosexuality has become so vehemently opposed that many homosexuals for years have faced the internal struggle of whether to come out or not as coming

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