Michael F. Greaves
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Excellent post, Dan; and I will add your paper to my reading list. However, I don't think that your argument is perfectly sound. I think that you are making an unstated assumption: that homos and heteros, of the same physical sex, experience gender the same way. I believe that they usually do not. There is strong scientific evidence that most homo men displayed gender-variant behaviour as small boys. It certainly was true in my case. I started to hide such behaviour when I was 5 or 6, but gender-variant feelings are a part of my sexuality. I don't think that your argument is valid for me, but I am reserving judgement on your work for now. My take on the morality of being homo is incredibly simple: I hold that being true to yourself is a moral requirement. It would be immoral for me to live a straight life. However, self-destructive behaviour is highly immoral, so this prescribes serious limitations on my activities, for the sake of hygiene and safety. This is the only satisfactory resolution possible, in my judgement. Being straight might be more optimal for some theoretical alternate variation of my self; but not for my actual self. So the term "suboptimal" may be problematic in this context, except in reference to my point about safety.