Breaking news: Indonesian mayor claims there is a link between breastfeeding and homosexuality.
- Feb 28, 2016
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An Indonesian mayor has suggested poor nutrition is responsible for homosexual or transgender children.
Speaking at a pregnancy seminar in Tangerang city health office, city mayor Arief R Wismansyah told the audience: “To create Indonesian children that are healthy smart and competitive, the most important thing is, from the beginning, to provide them adequate nutrition, especially breastfeeding.
“So, it’s no wonder that recently there are more LGBT.”
The story, reported on Indonesian website Okezone, said the mayor also told the seminar: “Allah created the creatures of his right pair, Adam and Eve, not Adam and Asep.”
Jakarta Post said the Indonesian Psychiatrists Association, the country’s leading body, had recently classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Suzy Yusna Dewi, a member, said: “We really do care about them. What we are worried about is, if left untreated, such sexual tendencies could become a commonly accepted condition in society.”
According to the association’s Mental Health and Mental Disorder Diagnostic Guidelines, homosexuals and bisexuals are classed “people with psychiatric problems” and transgender people have “mental disorders”.
She also suggested a person’s sexuality is similar to an addiction, saying: “Without constant intervention, a person can easily return to their previous sexual tendency once he or she experiences withdrawal.”
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