Re: “If America wishes to determine the truth, it can do so.”

Just who the fuck is “America”?

Is there a more disgusting, rotten, perfidious, predatory, and psychopathic country on earth than the US?

College psych 101 rears its ugly head.

The margin of error are huge, there is no good data indicating “people of colour” are more likely to be LGBT. It’s all in the female category too.

Gay germ makes no sense to me because it’s only to apply to men, yet female homosexuality is equally discordant in twins. It implies that it’s something stochastic in brain development very early on (in uterine environment or shortly after) which creates an opposite sex brain structure. The germ thing also makes no sense because men don’t suddenly become gay, nor do little boys suddenly ‘turn feminine’ which would be a sure indicator of a germ. Mothers would be horrified if that were true. In reality, they notice their boys act more like girls as soon as they start expressing themselves. The germ theory needs to go in the bin. Cochran was foolish on that front.

Sure, but it’s not supposed to apply to women because the whole concept is that the pathogen destroys male typical structure reverting the male to a female typical attraction circuit. How would female homosexual twin discordance come about? Oh, hormones in utero? So now the hormonal theory of homosexuality is plausible again. I just think the pathogen idea is dumb AF because gay face seems to be real and gays are so fem/neurotic that it’s a lot more cognitive overhaul than just some tiny region for attraction.

It doesn’t have to be extreme gender nonconformity, just elevated. Two of the gay males from my school were ‘different’ from the beginning at age 5. None of the boys treated them weirdly, and they occasionally hung out with us. None of us “caught” the gay off them. The fact that people on UNZ trot out Cochran’s pseudoscience is laughable.

Judging by what you’ve said, it appears you know of Cochran and his hypothesis, but haven’t actually read what he says about the pathogen and when it likely strikes

Cochran says it strikes sometime in childhood. Of course thats absurd – you’d notice your son suddenly turning feminine. The largest review showed that 90% of gay men were more feminine than the average heterosexual man. And again, why is twin discordance used as “evidence” for the gay germ, yet women are equally discordant and their homosexuality is not meant to be caused by a germ. That’s a blatant hole in the hypothesis because it implies that twins can undergo different developmental processes in events.

Perhaps such a germ expresses as transgenderism if one is infected later in life? Maybe not gay, but it sure looks like it

Have you read “The Man Who Would Be Queen” by J. Michael Bailey? He himself is on good terms with Cochran, and believes the germ theory has “evolutionary plausibility” but has big holes in it. Bailey writes about how transsexual men were often aroused by cross dressing from as young as 3. There was a case in Ken Zuckers office where a boy was pointing out womens underwear he wanted and had an erection. These straight men don’t suddenly “turn trans”, they actually just don’t talk openly about their fetish for cross dressing as a woman… yet in every documented case there is a long hidden history of doing so. Attributing all atypical sexual interest to germs is getting ridiculous – from an evolutionary perspective transsexualism is no problem since 80% of them are still attracted to women and reproduce. It’s easily explained by a mutation which is often passed from father to son.

I do buy into – among possibly other triggers – the infection hypothesis but from the autoimmune response. This is PANS you can read up on it. No literature states that there are sexual affects but I have seen this in play with children afflicted. Its been confirmed from talking w a couple researchers and practitioners they too have noticed but sadly won’t wade into politically charged waters.

The rise in gender issues also correlates to the rise in autoimmune issues. There are clearly major environmental issues plaguing our world.

It’s plausible. A more realistic version of Cochran’s hypothesis would be something like a pathogen causing an allergic reaction. Allergic reactions in pregnancy have been found to effect sex differentiation in the offspring of rat. Female offspring were more masculine, male offspring more feminine.

See here: https://neurosciencenews.com/allergic-reaction-sexual-development-10947/