Gregory Cochran vs. transgender people

Gregory Cochran (born 1953) proposes a “gay germ” hypothesis for the development of sexual orientation.

2013 anti-trans post

In 2013 Cochran wrote:

Deirdre McCloskey isn’t a woman: wishing can’t make it so, not even wishing and flashing scalpels. Neither is Joan Roughgarden. What they are is crazy. 

2016 anti-trans post

In 2016 Cochran wrote:

“transgender” people aren’t: they’re just crazy. Whittling doesn’t change the wiring of the brain, or the chromosomes. But in principle, such a transformation is possible. It would be an example of real, deep biological change – not the the tinkering at the margins we’re actually on the verge of.

Ordover

Nancy Ordover mentioned Cochran’s work in American Eugenics:

References

Cochran, Gregory (April 21, 2016). Metamorphosis. West Hunter. https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/metamorphosis/

 Cochran, Gregory. An Evolutionary Look at Human Homosexuality. http://zero.poynt.zero.googlepages.com/home

Cause of Homosexuality: Gene or Virus? 2005 http://thrasymachus.typepad.com/thras/2005/02/cochran_intervi.html

Hopper, Judith (February 1998). A New Germ Theory (Part Two). The Atlantic. pp. 41–53. [archive] https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/99feb/germ2.htm

Crain, Caleb (1999). Did a germ make you gay? Out Magazine. pp. 46–49 https://books.google.com/books?id=imIEAAAAMBAJ&q=gay%20germ&pg=PA46

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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