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'''Immutability''' is the inability of a thing to be changed. For example, it is impossible to change a dog into a cat. Likewise, it is impossible to changes one's [[race]] or [[sex]], although with makeup, drugs, [[plastic surgery]] etc. it is possible to conceal it or masquerade as a different race or sex.

'''Immutability''' is the inability of a thing to be changed. For example, it is impossible to change a dog into a cat. Likewise, it is impossible to changes one's [[race]], although with makeup, [[plastic surgery]] etc. it is possible to conceal it or masquerade as a different race.

There is some debate over whether a "[[sex-change]]" operation is valid.

There is some debate over whether a "[[sex-change]]" operation is valid as regards whether one's sex is immutable or not.

There has been much debate over whether [[homosexuality]] is immutable. Often the argument is made that it's either [[genetically determined]] (and thus immutable), or that it is entirely a matter of choice.  Given this [[dichotomy]], the premise that "I didn't choose to be gay" yields the conclusion that it must be genetically determined. However, the search for a "[[gay gene]]" has proved elusive. Many others, including most scientists, have a much less 'black and white' view.  They propose that it is determined by a complex interaction of many factors, some of which could be genetic, but probably also include psychological, environmental and cognitive factors, and is shaped at a very early age.

There has been much debate over whether [[homosexuality]] is immutable. Often the argument is made that it's either [[genetically determined]] (and thus immutable), or that it is entirely a matter of choice.  Given this [[dichotomy]], the premise that "I didn't choose to be gay" yields the conclusion that it must be genetically determined. However, the search for a "[[gay gene]]" has proved elusive. Many others, including most scientists, have a much less 'black and white' view.  They propose that it is determined by a complex interaction of many factors, some of which could be genetic, but probably also include psychological, environmental and cognitive factors, and is shaped at a very early age.