Q&A: Has McDowell's strategy on LGBTQ issues changed since "A New Kind of Apologist" (2016)?

McDowell edited A New Kind of Apologist (2016) — he wrote the introductory framing chapter; Alan Shlemon wrote the transgender chapter. In the three years since he cannot think of anything that has changed. Going back 15 years he would identify a couple of areas where his approach has been refined: (1) He went back and forth a couple of times on whether people are born gay. He now holds that the APA probably got it right: we do not really know why people have same-sex attraction, there are probably multiple routes, and it is likely some combination of nature and nurture. He had changed his view on this a few times after reading different reports.