Gay sheep? Let's get the facts straight | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
• GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
• ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference. But gay rams s size was almost intil to that “straight” femal.

The differenc are almost intil to those intified by the nroscientist Simon LeVay his studi of the bras of gay men. Sheep are particularly tertg, he says, bee bis humans, they are the only animal where the mal may naturally exprs exclively gay sexual preferenc. As many as one 10 rams n be gay.

But Lark suggts there may also be the fluence of gen at work, at least predisposg the animals to homosexualy. This is bee selective breedg seems to have been rponsible for the high proportn of gay sheep pared wh other animals. "The hope is that the study of the bra differenc will provi clu to the procs volved the velopment and regulatn of heterosexual, as well as homosexual, behavr.

GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT

The rults lend crence to prev studi humans that scribed anatomil differenc between the bras of heterosexual men and homosexual men, as well as sexually unique versns of the same clter of bra cells mal and femal. Science told: hands off gay sheep.

Apparently Profsor Charl Roselli is nductg gome experiments on sheep the name of eraditg homosexualy. "By varyg the hormone levels, " ntu, "maly by jectg hormon to the bra, they have had 'nsirable succs' alterg the rams' sexualy, wh some prevly gay animals beg attracted to ew. The only siar work pleted and published by them was about tryg to make "straight" animals "gay" (they avoid those terms) and any se, that experiment was negative: failed to achieve this aim.

ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

" most bizarre is the suggtn that the rearch was somehow ultimately about makg gay people straight.

The assertn is at the top of the article: "Scientists are nductg experiments to change the sexualy of 'gay' sheep a programme that crics fear uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans. Even if you uld tervene to make a gay human straight, you might reasonably expect this to make any hered tenncy towards homosexualy more prevalent, not all the misrmatn and misunrstandgs this ST piece appeared first a Peta (People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals) mpaign.

All male bighorn sheep that breed wh female ew also participate homosexual urtg & anal pulatn. Book excerpt:The mal have been scribed as “homosexual societi.