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I’m interested simply because I think the push-polling nature of these sorts of surveys may well be detrimental to social health. By pushing the idea that a full 25-30% of all Americans are some form of lgbt, it normalizes it, and thus pushes on the idea that we must find these poor souls before their traditionally minded parents cause trauma. We must push even harder to put normalization in the school system, on TV and in movies and music. If these things are actually rare, if very few people are consistently seeking only or mainly same-sex partners, and very few ever feel true discomfort in their natal sex, than we’re creating a health crisis that will hit the West in fifteen or twenty years when it hits us that these kids can never have children, and that it’s much too late to do anything. For people faking being gay, it comes with menopause in which it hits that particular woman that she can’t get pregnant or have a baby or grandchildren. For trans, it probably will hit around middle age — they will want kids, want to be parents, and that option was foreclosed for them long before they were actually able to decide whether it was something they wanted.
Furthermore, even if demography isn’t destiny in economics, it still is socially. And this means that as we sterilize our young, the future will come to belong to those who didn’t choose that path. And most of them don’t have the same values of freedom, high time preference, educational attainment, or democracy, among other things. This is potentially tragic for civilization itself. The values that created the modern world were taught and propagated by the West. And unless those values continue on, the ability to maintain civilization, let alone improve it will decline.
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