Growing up, I was somehow led to believe that LGBT was mostly just a choice, or that people were trying to use the excuse that they were "born this way". It is natural to be skeptical, and to think why would someone be born just like every other person but be gay or something. Also, people think, but everyone can be gay... you just have to [insert sexual act] like a homo...
The truth that I have learned now as an adult is that a lot of lgbt people are actually like a different species of person entirely. Their uniqueness has uniformity across all races and ethnicities; however, they are very clearly different than straight people as far as on a biological species type of level.
Excuse me for saying "species", but I cannot think of the best word to describe it. That is the only one that fully explains how it is. It is not just that they are gay and that is the only difference. They are on a different spectrum than straight people with a plethora of physical and mental characteristics, truly all of their characteristics with some exceptions. Some of those exceptions are that they are still human, and also they tend to share some kind of common bond with their gender sometimes.
So, what is the shocking truth? The shocking truth is the sheer number of people who literally have no idea that this is the case. I started to realize that the prejudice surrounding this could be due to the lack of knowledge surrounding their nature by people who are not them and have no desire to be around them long enough to understand.
The fact that they share human characteristics allows them to blend in to some degree; however, extreme prejudice has led many of them to try to cover up the characteristics and imitate straight people. I think that it is unfair to deny them any equality, considering that it is inhumane. They can't change who they are, and that is what everyone means when they say they are born that way.
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