Homophobia Definition

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Do homophobia and transphobia exist because human nature truly recognizes them as “unnatural,” or do they exist due to people being socialized over time to molding them into stigmas? For years, many groups have incessantly advocated the idea that being a homosexual is morally wrong. Some arguments for this idea are that it is unnatural, immoral, or harmful towards society. Ironically, however, homosexuality has been recorded in hundreds of species of creatures in nature, but homophobia has been found in only one. If people base their homophobia on an opinion that homosexuality is not natural, then in reality they are being contradictory. Homophobia and transphobia are purely social constructs, and there is no empirical evidence whatsoever

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