This is Diversity Training?! (re: Gays)

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Definitely not mundane or pointless, but not really pit-worthy either, this has been bothering me since I saw it yesterday. A post about diversity training:


*I've had a week of diversity training and there was this heated decision on whether being gay is a choice or not. 
Here were the options: 

A.) In one corner, you have this person saying that people have a choice 

B.) In the other coroner you have people saying they were, "born that way" 

C.) Undecided: In another corner you had people saying that although a person can be born with a particular sex organ they can have more of the other chromosome thus leading to homo tendencies…..yet you can never be sure. 

So is it preference (choice), or is it genetic (no choice)? 

So where do you stand...A, B, or C?*

Firstly, I don’t really understand what is meant by option C. More of another chromosome? The word homo was used by the poster, btw, it was NOT used in the training session. I didn’t really get clarification on this - it may have been what the participants thought and discussed rather than what the trainers presented. Seems to me, though, that those who thought up option C are a bit confused about things - in need of more than diversity training, in other words!

More important, though, is what kind of “diversity” training technique is this? No word in the post (the whole of it is above, as written) on what the trainers did during this discussion by the participants. Did they just stand by and let the discussion go on? :smack: I’ve had diversity training as well; it certainly did not include any sort of discussion like this. It’s likely that there were people who probably would select options A or C, though–they just didn’t voice it. Isn’t the main goal of diversity training to try to get folks to get along better with others who may not necessarily share their beliefs/mores, etc?

Most of the responders to this post, btw, selected genetic; several even offered another option - D - what difference does it make. Now that’s probably the choice of diversity training. FTR, seems to me like it’s genetic, from everything close family members have shared with me. I tend to believe them.

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Sounds like the typical diversity training nonsense. Choice c makes no sense. I’d tell the diversity trainer exactly what they can do with their sex organ.

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My perspective is 1) diversity training gets people talking about diversity issues, of which GLBT issues are a part. 2) I see nothing in the post that the three choices above were a formal part of the training. They sound like the poster’s summary of a discussion that took place during the training. 3) I think option C is a reasonable option to be expressed by someone who doesn’t have a lot of knowledge about GLBT issues. When asked if homosexuality is a choice or genetic, they said they didn’t know. Fair enough. I’d be more worried about those, especially without personal experience, who are convinced with certainty they know one way or the other.