Lisa Diamond, PhD Presented a TED Talk, September 8, 2018 at Kingsbury Hall

In her talk, Dr. Diamond argued that although it's become common to promote LGBT equality by arguing that LGBT individuals are "born that way", there are three major problems with this approach:

1. It's not scientifically accurate
2. It's not legally necessary
3. It's unjust

According to Diamond, "How and why and when individuals become LGBT may be fascinating to scientists like me, it should have no bearing on whether their parents accept and embrace them and it certainly should have no bearing on public policy."

Dr. Diamond studies how people express sexual attraction and sexual identity at different stages in their lives. She is renowned for her work on sexual fluidity, which describes a person's ability to experience shifts in their same-sex and other-sex attraction over time.