This statistic shows the shift Amerins' views om 1977 to 2019 as to whether people are born gay or lbian, or their sexual orientatn velops due to upbrgg and environmental factors.
Contents:
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- ON GAY NATURE VS. NURTURE
- NATURE VS. NURTURE: BORN GAY
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai.
“As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother. The rearchers had members of the same-sex muny review the study’s sign and language, and they adm that their termology and fns for gay, lbian and heterosexual do not reflect the full nature of the sexualy ntuum.
“[Our study] unrsr an important role for the environment shapg human sexual behavr and perhaps most importantly there is no sgle gay gene but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” Neale said.
ON GAY NATURE VS. NURTURE
-- Half of Amerins Gallup's 2018 Valu and Beliefs poll say that beg gay or lbian is a tra om birth, easily eclipsg the 30% who believe is a product of upbrgg and environment. Separately, Gallup recently reported that the percentage of Amerins intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr has creased a full pot sce 2012 and is now 4. Amerins who believe gays and lbians are born wh their sexual orientatn are much more supportive of gay rights than are those who say orientatn is due to upbrgg and environment.
Notably, among the 10% sayg both factors ntribute to beg gay, a solid majory (67%) believe same-sex marriag should be regnized by the law as valid.
NATURE VS. NURTURE: BORN GAY
Amerins have gradually moved toward the belief that beg gay or lbian is not "ed" by upbrgg and environmental factors, but rather is a tra a person is born wh. This uld have important implitns for public support for gay rights, as those who believe nature has a hand sexual orientatn are much more likely to be sympathetic to affordg gays equal rights marriage. At the time, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn still listed homosexualy as a disorr and psychologists and psychiatrists were traed on ways to treat .