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[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

ESPECIALLY given the number of bisexual and homosexual transgender individuals?

If you mean actually homosexual - than it is the point, conversing gay man into straight woman. They are staying straight in eyes of the society, while being homosexual.

If you mean heterosexual but presenting themselves as homosexual - then there no big deal, society still see them as straight, because it is regular penis in vagina sex, which is the norm and not some deviation of gay sex or lesbian sex. And it was already used before (on me in USSR, for example) in homophobic countries - tries to "fix" or "cure" homosexuality by forcing gay men dating masculine women, who are presenting as men, and for lesbian women to date feminine men with "feminine" penises. So it is classic homophobic cases, and society see nothing wrong in such.

[–]Grandma 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

than it is the point, conversing gay man into straight woman

Would you say society is more accepting of trans women than gay men?

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In most cases - yes. In some cases it is even advised to "convert" gay men into transwomen.

[–]Grandma 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have any evidence that claim is true?

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Out of 75 countries with anti-homosexual laws, only 15 have anti-transgender laws, and around 20 are allowing sex change in legal documents, two are even promoting gender-change with surgeries for homosexual people, one is forcing and paying for transitioning homosexual people (and alternative is death).

Many previously homophobic countries (USSR as example I lived through) were practicing conversion therapies and two methods they were coming in the end were transition with surgeries homosexual people, or force them date and marry opposite sex people who are very feminine or masculine (or prison, or death).