Am I Gay Quiz - wikiHow

Contents:

• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• AM I GAY?
• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• NO ONE IS BORN GAY

IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?

Beg gay is not a choice for people. What we do know is that there isn’t one sgle gene that explas homosexualy. The most nvcg data about the geic basis of homosexualy om lookg at tws.

Beg gay has a lot to do wh geics. Some of the bt evince that homosexualy has a strong geic part om tw studi. Tw studi of homosexualy have shown that intil tws are about twice as likely to both be gay pared to aternal tws.

AM I GAY?

This means that beg gay is partly geic, and not simply somethg that a person learns or choos. If the DNA sequence were the only thg termg whether someone is gay or not, we would expect intil tws to match 100% of the time.

ARE WE BORN GAY?

If one tw is gay, the other is gay about 50% of the time as well.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

What other factors might fluence whether someone is gay? When lookg at large fai, scientists saw that men wh lots of olr brothers were more likely to be gay.

Men wh lots of olr brothers are more likely to be gay. Of urse, this isn’t the only environmental explanatn for how people are born gay – there are plenty of men wh olr brothers who are not gay. And there are plenty of gay men wh no olr brothers!

Even though the evince is pretty strong for homosexualy beg partly geic, some people don’t accept . The argument monly go: If gay men and women are ls likely to have babi, they won’t pass on their gen. So any “gay gen” should disappear.

NO ONE IS BORN GAY

Ergo, beg gay n’t be geic.

One possible explanatn is that the same gen that make a man gay n also make a woman more fertile. The looked at the female relativ of gay men, both on the mother’s and father’s si. This uld mean that there are some gen that are passed down om the mother’s si that make women more fertile and make men more likely to be gay.