Can we have a purely scientific discussion on treating homosexuality and transsexualism?
What hypotheses have shown the most promise? Which areas are worth further study?
There was a study a few years ago where bisexuality was induced in mice by altering them to not have serotonin receptors, but not full homosexuality. As far as I know though, SSRI's don't reverse homosexuality in humans and generally decrease sex drive. Even drugs that flood the brain with serotonin like MDMA don't change the sexuality of humans. What is your interpretation of the serotonin system on the sexual orientation of humans?
>Can we have a purely scientific discussion on treating homosexuality and transsexualism? Probably not but I'll try.
>What hypotheses have shown the most promise?
Not 'social constructs'. It's better to view transsexualism as a behavior, where a member of one gender behaves and identifies as a member of another. There may be a cognitive root to this, but that should be viewed as beyond our current grasp. Social constructs, on the other, render gender impossible to study scientifically. If gender is whatever you want it to be, there's no point in defining it. It looses all semantic value.
