but that doesn't mean we're necessarily talking about the same thing as when we refer to adult humans
Why not?
I assume that it doesn't make sense to talk about whether a baby is straight or gay, for example.
Well, according to the (admittedly rather dubious) party line being gay is an intrinsic property and not a choice and most definitely not subject to environmental influence by pro-gay memes.
Heck, the official (and even more dubious) party line on trans-people is that they have always been their gender trapped in the wrong bodies.
Why not?
Because the map is not the territory? You can argue that they are the same thing, but the fact that they use the same word isn't sufficient.
Well, according to the (admittedly rather dubious) party line being gay is an intrinsic property and not a choice and most definitely not subject to environmental influence by pro-gay memes.
That doesn't mean it's a property that babies have. They might have the property "will be gay when they hit puberty", but that's a different property. A six-month old baby might have a gene that will give he...
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