I Don't Believe in Homosexuality.

You'll be surprised where this is going.  Pay attention.

A few years ago, I was talking to my sister and she informed me that her daughter, my niece, was bisexual (and for the record, still is).  I'd come a long way since my years under cult influence.  Before, I'd been unsure of how to feel about homosexuals and their lifestyle.  By the point of this conversation, I knew there was nothing wrong with my niece and was glad that she could accept herself.

I'd recently taken a class on human sexuality and the discussion triggered a series of thoughts in my mind.  How do you classify a woman who believes she is actually a man and is attracted to women?  Is she gay for having a vagina and being attracted to women, or straight for believing she should have a penis and having the same attraction?  If she undergoes surgery and now has a penis and is still attracted to women?  We could run through the same questions for a man who believes he's a woman.  What if a person believes they are androgynous and is attracted to one gender or the other?  What if they're only attracted to other androgynous people?  Hermaphrodites?  What if a person has no sexual drive or desire whatsoever?  Or a person who can only find sexual release through self stimulation?

Consider a woman who is in a relationship with a female to male transgender?  Is she gay or straight?  If the one she's with is male to female?  What about a pre-female to male transgender living with a post op male to female?

How do you categorize a person who interest in their own gender is only a phase in their development?  or perhaps their interest in the opposite gender is only passing?  Perhaps sex itself is only a passing phase?  or perhaps their art and thus the center of their self-expression?

Even along the limited perspective of 2 genders, the terms Homosexual, Heterosexual, and Bisexual fall quite short of adequate.  Take for instance three men who categorize themselves as Bisexual.   One may have a strong preference for men, another for women, and the third may like both equally. One could then consider that the one with a preference for men may have a higher overall libido, that he may take on more partners in a shorter period of time, or may have sex more often with just one or two partners, while the others get by with having sex less often or with fewer overall people.

So, no, I don't believe in homosexuality.  Or heterosexuality.  or bisexuality.  Human beings just aren't that simplistic.  So go, satisfy your wants, urges and needs in whatever way seems best to you, with whomever you find attractive.  Stop worrying about categorizing yourself.