[TChris]

That, you don't know. You have some people who claim they have changed their orientation, but you don't really have anything but their word for it. I remain sceptical of such claims.

And what do you have, except for their "word for it", to prove they ever were "gay"?

[LtdGovt]

And what do you have, except for their "word for it", to prove they ever were "gay"?

It's called logic. If you had thought about this question, you would have figured out the answer. Let's look at the question: you're asking how we know that homosexuals are actually romantically attracted to members of the same-sex. Well, what reason would they have to form relations with members of the same sex, except for the fact that they're attracted to them? Thus, I conclude that they probably are what they claim to be. On the other hand, if you look at the people who say they are formerly queer. What reason could they have for forming relations with members of the opposite sex? Why did they 'change'? I assume that religious and societal concerns matter greatly, since religion plays a very large role in most of these 'conversion therapies'. Thus, I conclude that their attractions probably haven't changed at all, but that their behavior has. I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of those people, people who imagine her to be a man. Not in one hundred years.