Has The "Gay Gene" Been Found Female Mice? | Popular Science

Contents:

• NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE
• HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE

Here's how Amerins have tracked over recent s rponse to "In your view, is beg gay or lbian somethg a person is born wh, or due to factors such as upbrgg and environment? In the late 1990s, nversatn around a "gay gene" was very ntroversial. Among the endangered mice, homosexualy was observed and, at the same time, nnibalism creased, spe the fact that there was plenty of food.

"Gay" seems like the wrong word here. " If the mice were gay, they wouldn't have ntued to try to have sex wh femal, right?

HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?

It's also probably a mistake to speculate that there's a lk humans between seroton levels and homosexualy, as Gawker's Seth Abramovch do. "Then you might be gay! "Really, 's a bad ia to e terms like "gay" and "straight" when talkg about mice at all.

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

"This, and the wispread nature of homosexual behavur animals, supports the ia that sexual preference is more of a ntuum.

)Yong go on to quote the Columbia profsor Milton Waberg: As Waberg says, the assumptn that there’s a clear le between heterosexual and homosexual behavur “is out of step wh the field of sexualy rearch.