Here's a link to a commentary by April Michelle Herndon. She is an
assistant professor of English who also teaches in the Women's and
Gender Studies department at Winona State University in Minnesota.
"Would you take a magic pill to make yourself straight?" That
question came from an audience member at a recent panel discussion at
my university, organized by the GLBT Faculty Committee and the GLBT
Student Partnership, which aimed to educate the campus about the
lives of GLBT people and their generational struggles. The panel
discussion was part of a suite of activities leading up to our
campus's observation of the National Day of Silence. I wasn't able to
attend the panel, but those who did told me everyone on it said that
they would take the magic pill, with one person adding that he'd like
to take a whole bottle of those pills.
I wish I could have been on that panel to say, "No, I wouldn't take a
magic pill," and to unpack the question.
<http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4793&blogid=140>Link
