There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• GAY MALE SEXUALY

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

The news this week that the largt study of s kd failed to nfirm the existence of a "gay gene" is not so much a disappotment for those lookg to unrstand the LGBTQ muny, as is an acknowledgement that science do not need to tell what should be plaly obv: gays, lbians, bisexuals and pansexuals are who they are. But here's the quote that will light opponents of LGBTQ rights, some of whom sist they n "nvert" gay people to choose to be straight by prayg the gay away:.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

"There is no ‘gay gene’ that term whether someone has same-sex partners, ” said Ganna, who is also a geicist at the Broad Instute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Universy of Helski. While the variatns the gen are not enough to raise a rabow flag and label anyone as unqutnably gay, the rearchers say the blogil variants may at the very least partly fluence sexual behavr.

This new rearch, he said “provis even more evince that beg gay or lbian is a natural part of human life, a ncln that has been drawn by rearchers and scientists time and aga. This new rearch also renfirms the long tablished unrstandg that there is no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluence how a gay or lbian person behav. Geics nnot tell "the whole story, " as Eric Vila, director of the Center for Geic Medice Rearch at Children’s Natnal Health System, told the Post, about what "mak" somebody gay.

It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice. If, on the other hand, you nsir someone to be gay only if they act on their same-sex attractn then beg gay n be nsired a choice pendg on an dividual's behavr. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and even gay rearchers regnize that homosexualy nnot be rced to blogy alone.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

Their reproductive ans work together harmonly to produce new humans—a clear ditn that natural sign favors heterosexual rather than homosexual unns. Though some gay advot ny that the Bible nmns homosexual behavr, they mt rort to terpretive gymnastics that distort the clear and obv meang of the biblil text to do so.

” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other. 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.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

“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. In argug that homosexualy is “natural, ” gay activists claim that there are hundreds of exampl of homosexual behavr among animals and that the exampl are found virtually every speci.

GAY MALE SEXUALY

Before I answer that qutn, I’d like to ask a qutn return: Do gays really want to pot to the animal world to prove that their romantic attractns and sexual sir are “natural”? ”In other words, animals are not humans, and gays ga nothg by appealg to the animal world, unls you want to say that when a male dog grabs hold of your leg and starts dog his thg on you, he is actg “gay. Homosexualy; to pot to specific “homosexual” behavrs among animals prov is te that there are hundreds if not thoands of exampl of “gay animals” or same-sex attractns and acts among them?

That’s why gay scientist Simon LeVay wrote, “Although homosexual behavr is very mon the animal world, seems to be very unmon that dividual animals have a long-lastg predisposn to engage such behavr to the excln of heterosexual activi. That me up the news about a ago, but not surprisgly, you don’t hear much about anymore, sce there don’t seem to have been much to the first the allegedly gay pengu uple om the Central Park Zoo, Roy and Silo, celebrated the book “And Tango Mak Three” (Tango was the pengu baby they helped raise together), eventually broke up when Silo took up wh a female pengu named Scrappy.