The real message: indoctrination of social norms creates confusion by forcing an individual to identify their sexuality
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My "normal" upbringing did not include any instruction about "abnormal" sexuality, because it didn't exist. Thus, I was shocked when initially learning that homosexuality was a lifestyle. This occurred close to a year after leaving my hometown to attend college. Yes, I was raised in a small, conservative city that had every Christian denomination imaginable without any taverns. Fortunately, the evangelical church I attended chose not to condemn "sinners", and taught us living was a learning experience.
My 50/50 "confusion" remains. I am not straight. I am a guy that has remained married for over 40 years. I chased women for sexual gratification, and kept a tally of the variety of my conquests. At age 27, learning that two of my buddies actually had sex with one woman at the same time shocked me as much as learning about homosexuality. Neither of those guys would identify as being gay. That occurred in 1977. There's no way I could not consider that "abnormal" sexuality. I choose not to call it perverted, but our social "normality" would disagree with me.
On my initial profile on LPSG, I struggled to identify myself as 90% Straight/10% Gay. It took a few years for me to realize the futility of our "sexuality identifiers". Somehow our civility has determined many more personal identifiers of our sexuality have become necessary.
Are you cisgender? Are you a transman or a transwoman? And, by the way, does that mean you are a lesbian or homosexual?
Is a gay trans person really straight?
Wouldn't it be much easier to accept we are confused human animals?