Everything the Media Claimed about Gender and Sexuality is WRONG

[*PhilHos*]

I'm surprised no one's linked this or talked about it. I just came across this on my Facebook newsfeed this morning.

Anyway, there was a study that was published a couple of days ago that, among other things says the following:

Quote:The belief that sexual orientation is an innate, biologically fixed human property—that people are ‘born that way’—is not supported by scientific evidence.

Quote: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.

Quote: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.

Quote: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.

Here's a link to the study:
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-50-fall-2016

Full disclosure: I pulled those quotes from an article talking about it (the article was an op-ed piece so I'm not linking it). I have NOT read the study yet (it's quite lengthy), but I do plan on taking a look at it sometime in the not-to-distant-future. In the interim, I hope for those of you who would take umbrage at those quotes above to go through and point out any issues you may have with the study (i.e. cherry picking stats, etc.).

For now, let's assume that those quotes are 100% factual and supported by the evidence. What does that mean for this country? What, if any, effect does this have on policies and laws going forth?