Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity is not Innate, New Report Reveals NEWS ANALYSIS By David W. Virtue DD www.virtueonline.org August 24, 2016 We've been lied too, over and over again, for several decades, in fact, by the media and the massive pansexual public relations machine that controls mainstream media, that sexual orientation and gender identity is innate, fixed and nothing can be done about it. A major new report, published this week in the journal The New Atlantis, by two leading scholars and scientists, challenges the leading narratives that the media has pushed regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. You can read it here: http://tinyurl.com/h8qk45r Co-authored by two of the nation's leading scholars on mental health and sexuality, the 143-page report discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences, painstakingly documenting what scientific research shows and does not show about sexuality and gender. The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that "some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence." Here are four of the report's most important conclusions: • The belief that sexual orientation is an innate, biologically fixed human property--that people are 'born that way'--is not supported by scientific evidence. • Likewise, the belief that gender identity is an innate, fixed, human property, independent of biological sex--so that a person might be a 'man trapped in a woman's body' or 'a woman trapped in a man's body'--is not supported by scientific evidence. • Only a minority of children who express gender-atypical thoughts or behavior will continue to do so into adolescence or adulthood. There is no evidence that all such children should be encouraged to become transgender, much less subjected to hormone treatments or surgery. • Non-heterosexual and transgender people have higher rates of mental health problems (anxiety, depression, suicide), as well as behavioral and social problems (substance abuse, intimate partner violence), than the general population. Discrimination alone does not account for the entire disparity. The report, "Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences," is co-authored by Dr. Lawrence Mayer and Dr. Paul McHugh. Mayer is a scholar-in-residence in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and a professor of statistics and biostatistics at Arizona State University. McHugh, whom the editor of The New Atlantis describes as "arguably the most important American psychiatrist of the last half-century," is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and was, for 25 years, the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It was during his tenure as psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins, that he put an end to sex reassignment surgery there, after a study launched at Hopkins revealed that it didn't have the benefits for which doctors and patients had long hoped. VOL has written about McHugh's findings over the years. There is no gay gene: http://www.virtueonline.org/charleston-sc-dr-paul-mchugh-there-no-gay-gene Transgender surgery is not the solution: http://www.virtueonline.org/transgender-surgery-isnt-solution-0 Click here for the rest of the article: http://www.virtueonline.org/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-not-innate-new-report-reveals