LGBTQ, has the world lost its moral compass?

As I write this, somewhere at the back of my mind I’m hoping this doesn’t come back to haunt me negatively in the future, with the way the world is going, haha it might. Oh well that’s why we’re here, to be creative, to splash our minds and opinions on ink even though many won’t dare to because they’re too afraid to offend anyone and be looked at as close minded. 

What is LGBTQ? 

It’s an acronym that stands for Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexual, Transgenders and Queers. It’s a complex topic that has being controversial throughout recent years and because of time constraints I wouldn’t be able to dive deeply into what each actually means but in summary, it’s a minor group of people who are not exclusively heterosexual. They believe that their sexual orientations should be respected in an attempt at diversity and inclusiveness. 

To some people, the question as to whether its morally right in the first place is a matter of perspective, but to me it’s not, and I have a right to hold an opinion, is it not?. Don’t worry, Mark is not a bigot. I’ll get to why I hold such an opinion soon as we dive deeply into this awesome piece.

A lot of people often only associate morality with cultural, traditional and religious beliefs but its not entirely so. Morality is also basic human values, the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper. The constitutions used to guide nations were not coined out of thin air but substantially based on part of the “goodness” or “rightness” of a society’s practices.

Let’s take for instance homosexuality. Homosexuality is accepted only because tolerance has become the ultimate value of the western society. Except this tolerance does not extend to people who have a clear vision of right and wrong. When a person does assert an opinion they are attacked verbally and in other ways. Free speech is being beaten down by the “intolerance of tolerance.”

One might ask, why does morality even matter? Everybody has a different interpretation of it. As long as one’s actions don’t infringe on others, nobody’s hurt then it shouldn’t be viewed as being wrong. Well, my answer to that is that it is wrong and I will give a few reasons why.

Firstly, something does not negatively have to affect others for it to be wrong. Choosing to litter in a pristine natural environment, even if it doesn’t immediately harm others, is often considered wrong due to its indecent impact on the environment. There are so many other scenarios that suggest this. Dressing half or fully naked doesn’t immediately bring harm to others because its your body and your choice but it does bring a chain reaction of condescending opinions that others may have about you, why? Because some parts of the body are meant to be private, making it private prevents unnecessary arousal in others. Sometimes seeing someone naked is all it takes to be aroused.

Another reason is that homosexuality is incompatible with evolution, assuming homosexuality was originally a generally acceptable practice then the human population will not be where it is today. As a matter of fact, we would have become an endangered species if not totally extinct.

Let’s talk about transgenderism, what is it? It’s an act of being a transgender. According to the dictionary, a transgender is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. If that is the case then is that not more of a mental issue? The current feeling or state of mind? Why do people then need to alter their body parts to align with their psychological state of mind? So that they can be referred to as what they are not?

This takes us back to the fact that the western society is more concerned with making everyone happy rather than questioning the logic behind their beliefs. Because you like to do things the way the opposite gender/sex does, doesn’t make you the opposite gender/sex. There are XY and XX chromosomes for a reason and those can never be altered no matter how many body parts you change. If one likes to do things like the opposite gender/sex then they should be free to do those things, we are human, we are diverse, but what we can’t do is lie or pretend to our faces that because you like to do those things then it supposedly makes you the opposite gender/sex. It is argued that gender is different from sex, the pronouns for sex are male and female. Now what are the pronouns for gender? Truth is, we don’t even know anymore. He, She, They, and so on don’t have the same meaning anymore. The truth remains that gender is a projection of sex, if they were completely different, then one wouldn’t have to rely on the other. A transgender with male organs alters them to look like female organs and is expected to be referred to as ‘She” after this partial transformation (only partial because no matter the procedure, it can never be a complete transformation since you can’t alter the chromosomes). Why She? Is ‘she’ not a representation of a female? A woman that you are attempting to look like or vice versa?

I have looked at all the variants, justifications and rational behind the LGBTQ movement but the truth remains that these issues defy logic and meaningful purpose to preservation of human species, which is why I still hold the opinion that they are not in the bracket of morality practice. Maybe I could change my mind in the future if concrete findings evidently justify it for instance, if doctors can find a way to completely alter the human chromosome then it would be scientifically, logically and morally correct to say “that human being is the opposite gender/sex”.