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Statement 1
Sexuality is a biological characteristic.
It’s likely there is some biological involvement, though exactly how it works is not fully understood.
Men like women and women like men and that can't be changed.
Why would that be the case? It’s true that only a man and a women can reproduce, but love and sex are not restricted to acts of attempted reproduction in humans. Even when it was illegal, there were many who broke the law because that would mean living without love.
Anyone who says they're gay is lying because homosexuality isn't real.
Actually, sexual attraction has been tested scientifically and same sex attraction has been shown to exist.
It's a choice.
There is a degree of choice involved regarding whether to act on your sexual attraction and feelings of love, or not. Sexuality doesn’t make any difference to that though.
We should make sure that gay people can't join the Scouts because they're only doing so to rape little boys.
No idea why people would equate being gay with paedophilia, but people do have some odd ideas.
Statement 2
Gender is a biological characteristic.
Can you define how you’re using “gender” here please? If you mean “sex” then yes, that is a biological characteristic. If you mean gender identity, then there is no compelling proof that such a thing exists. There may, potentially be a biological basis that makes some men have more traits that are considered feminine and some women have more traits that are considered masculine, but I don’t believe that has been studied, perhaps because it’s not easy to define those traits.
Men are men and women are women and that can't be changed.
This is correct. Some people undergo a medical process called transitioning, where they attempt to change their appearance to be more like that of the opposite sex, but their sex remains unchanged.
Anyone who says they're transgender is lying because being transgender isn't real.
If they say they’re transgender because they are undergoing a medical transition then that makes sense. I think perhaps you need to define “being transgender”. It previously had the meaning I described, but now seems to be something that indicates nothing more than a feeling in someone’s head, which of course cannot be argued with, because people experience all kinds of different feelings. I have no reason to believe people are lying if they claim they have a certain feeling or thought, but I don’t think we should be changing laws and access to sexed spaces, based on nothing more than an unverifiable feeling.
It's a choice.
Whether to undergo medical transition is obviously a choice, as is any other medical procedure. The decision may be easy or difficult, depending on circumstances, but it is a choice nonetheless. Is it a choice to have certain feelings or thoughts? Not entirely, of course. However there are relatively new treatments such as CBT which are nowadays used to help people modify or challenge their thought processes in order to help them feel less distressed. CBT only started to be widely used after transition protocols had been established. Impossible to say whether it might help those who feel they are the wrong sex and find it distressing because, at present, any attempt to test it as a theory would be frowned upon.
We should make sure that transgender people can't use the women's toilets because they're only doing so to rape women.
Again, this is such an odd statement that I barely feel able to comment. Does anyone really think that? Certainly nobody has said it here, and if they did, it would quickly be removed. However, I will attempt to address it.
Some people who feel they are transgender are women, so of course they should use women’s toilets if they want to, though this might become problematic for them if they are medically transitioning and have taken sufficient testosterone that they look male. It seems unlikely women who are transitioning would be using women’s toilets with the purpose of harming other women. More likely they are using them because they always have, and feel safer doing so.
Male people who are transitioning perhaps do not feel comfortable in toilets and changing rooms for their own sex, but there’s no reason that discomfort means that they should move into women’s spaces. It is more logical to create third spaces. Obviously not all men who choose to use women’s spaces are predators, but men’s rate of criminal offending and violence is significantly higher than that of women, and they have greater physical strength, on average. Therefore, I believe men should not use women’s spaces, regardless of any medical processes, and particularly not because of internal feelings they claim they have, in the absence of any medical intervention.
Hope that helps, though I’m not really sure what point you were trying to make.