The theory that people are "born gay" has been ed to argue that sexual orientatn is siar to race - that "gay is the new black." Based largely on this premise, the proposed "Equaly Act," which is currently unr nsiratn Congrs, would treat sexual orientatn exactly like race unr feral civil rights laws. But is te that sexual orientatn is termed at (or before) birth?
Contents:
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
- IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
- ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * is someone born gay or is it a choice *
Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay? In other words, 5-10% of people experience same-sex sexual attractn or behavr; of urse, this don't speak to what mak people gay.
No one knows for certa why any dividual is gay, but the current thought is that beg gay is not a choice. Morn science is workg to show that geics is one of the of beg gay, although some science nflicts this area.
Study of fay history reveals that homosexual men have more homosexuals their fay tree than do heterosexuals. The precise gen volved the of beg gay have not yet been intified but they appear to e om the mother.
IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
“I do not believe people, when they are born, choose their sexualy. They are gay if they are born gay.” - Prime Mister Kev Rudd, ABC TV’s Q&A, 2 September. Rpondg to a qutn om dience… * is someone born gay or is it a choice *
Addnally, some studi have found that the bras om homosexuals differ om the bras of heterosexuals.
While psychologil factors may crease the likelihood that someone is gay, no sgle factor is known to e homosexualy.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
* is someone born gay or is it a choice *
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.
Whether science n ultimately prove the blogy of beg gay or not, 's important to support all adults their choic no matter how they intify.
ARE WE BORN GAY?
Tw studi of homosexualy have shown that intil tws are about twice as likely to both be gay pared to aternal tws.
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. When lookg at large fai, scientists saw that men wh lots of olr brothers were more likely to be gay.
IS ANYONE BORN 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. 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.
One possible explanatn is that the same gen that make a man gay n also make a woman more fertile.
ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
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. No matter why those gen are still around, we do know that beg gay is partly geic and partly termed before a baby is even born. Rpondg to a qutn om dience member and Christian pastor Matt Prater about the Prime Mister’s support for same-sex marriage, Rudd fend his posn by g the startg pot that gay people are born that way, rather than cidg at some later stage to be straight or gay.
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
The bate over whether people are “born gay” has been an active one for several years, but what do the current science dite?
A strict terpretatn of the phrase “born gay” would imply that sexual orientatn is fixed at birth and nnot be subsequently fluenced.
In any se, any fluence of childhood experienc on later sexual orientatn would not nstute a cisn to be gay, which Rudd ntrasts wh beg “born gay”.