http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7456588.stm The brains of gay men and women look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex, research suggests.
A group of 90 healthy gay and heterosexual adults, men and women, were scanned by the Karolinska Institute
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A medical condition is something that adversely affects one's health, no?
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But I don't think that a "condition" should automatically be considered something bad. Hetrochromia is a medical condition, but I'm not aware of it having any adverse effect on people born with it. Ditto an extra rib.
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That still doesn't make that policy any less immoral, and the very premise behind it any less erroneous.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness
"Historically, the left side, and subsequently left-handedness, was considered negative in many cultures. The Latin word sinistra originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double meaning survives in Italian, and in the English word "sinister". Alternatively, sinister comes from the Latin word sinus meaning "pocket": a traditional Roman toga had only one pocket, located on the left side. The right hand has historically been associated with skill: the Latin word for right-handed is dexter, as in "dexterity", meaning manual skill. Even the word "ambidexterity" reflects the bias. Its intended meaning is "skillful on both sides". However, since it keeps the Latin root dexter, which means "right", it ends up conveying the idea of being "right-handed at both sides". This bias is also apparent in the lesser-known antonym "ambisinistrous", which means " ( ... )
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Science wasn't immune from being abused back then.
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medical condition
A disease, illness, or injury Medical practice Any condition-eg, physiologic, mental, or psychologic conditions or disorders-eg, orthopedic, visual, speech, or hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, CA, CAD, DM, mental retardation, emotional or mental illness, specific learning disabilities, HIV disease, TB, drug addiction, alcoholism
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