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Originally posted by fabbriche
Well, surgical procedures (the same holds true for therapies also) are not only performed just to cure a disease. A lot of it now are done to enhance or alter something in the human body, or improve or change an underlying condition. And if ever there are people who view homosexuality as a disease, the same thing can also be said to some trans people who think that it's a curse being trapped in their natural bodies thus they feel the need for a sex reassignment surgery.
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Yes, but the point is that you used the word "cure." In order for a cure to exist, there has to be a disease or disorder to treat and homosexuality does not, by any accepted meaning of the word, fall under that umbrella. Science may find a way to
change someone's sexual orientation (though I highly doubt this will happen in the next ten years, especially given the fact that the developed world is only growing more progressive on the topic and so I doubt there will be an increased push for research of this nature), but homosexuality will never be "cured" because there's nothing to cure.
Transsexuality is something entirely different because it is an actual disorder and therefore entirely not analogous to homosexuality, at least in that regard.
Anyway, to answer the question: I doubt we'll have a "cure" for HIV, but there have been several seemingly promising developments in the search for a vaccine. It might not come within ten years but we should at least be very close to one.