Why would a straight person chose to be anything other than straight?

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99. The universe of persons, to which that theory "inborn gay" can be posed as an exclusion is a MIGHTY

BIG number, so the probability that there are people who will run from it, making the closet bigger, is a HIGH probability, so now the question is "how many". How many will run away and hide compared to how many will evaluate themselves honestly one way or the other, pro or con.

I don't know those numbers and neither does anyone else, I'd bet, because you're asking to test people on something that at least a significant minority of them are very possibly running from in the first place.

One thing I do know: Part of the justification of LGBTQ Rights is derived from Human Rights. IOW, there should be LGBTQ justice, because individual persons are intrinsically valuable. This assumption negates the "how many" question. It doesn't matter how big the closet is. Even one who runs to the closet, whether that's an increase in the size of the closet over-all or not, even just one is too many and if that's not the case, then there is no such thing as LGBTQ rights, because if a right doesn't apply to everyone, it's not a right, it's a privilege, which is maintained by advantage/power.

That one person added to the closet IS significant not only to themselves and their loved ones, but also very possibly to us. How? Out of the many many who will run from the negative pressure, what if one person who runs from these negative either-or propositions about sexual identity happens to be the person who would have done something powerfully important to a lot of people had s/he not been intimidated by either-or social pressure about his/her sexual identity and, as a result, ran to the closet, which closet changed the course of their lives in a way such that their potential was warped and their discoveries and potential were never realized?

Important to you or not? I don't know that probability, but We can even change this question to something more probable, not about those who could "have done something powerfully important to a lot of people", something more probable about ordinary people. What about the infinity of small behavioral choices that result in much wider aggregate effects in all kinds of systems? Are those "small" decisions affected by whether one is happy or not?

If we make authentic self-identification a negative experience, from which people run, and a significant number of those defensively "run to the closet" which broadly effects their functional capacities, what about the result of all of those little dysfunctional behavioral choices made by absolutely "average" people because they are un-happy?

Is that result 0? I don't think so. What is it's significance? That's hard to tell, but it could be something as obvious as running a red light and killing someone, or cheating on your relationships, or lying about people, or the aggregate effects of all of that unhappiness.