Contents:
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH DISPARI: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF A POLICY POSN PAPER OM THE AMERIN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
- COMPARISON OF HEALTH AND HEALTH RISK FACTORS BETWEEN LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS AND HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS THE UNED STAT: RULTS OM THE NATNAL HEALTH TERVIEW SURVEY
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian. The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene. In s stead, the report fds that human DNA nnot predict who is gay or heterosexual.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH DISPARI: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF A POLICY POSN PAPER OM THE AMERIN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty.
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. “We worried a lot about volunteer bias, ” said Bailey, whose rearch clus a wily publicized study on Xq28 and gay brothers om 2018.
COMPARISON OF HEALTH AND HEALTH RISK FACTORS BETWEEN LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS AND HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS THE UNED STAT: RULTS OM THE NATNAL HEALTH TERVIEW SURVEY
Sanrs llaborated wh Bailey on those earlier studi and said their work had always admted that there was no sgle “gay gene. 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. In other words, tri to judge if a person leans gay, straight or bisexual.