Scholars at the teemed Johns Hopks Universy studied the origs of homosexualy and found there is sufficient evince to say gay, lbian, or transgenr people are born this way (sexual orientatn or genr inty). They believe Homosexualy is ed by a variety of factors, clud
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- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
- APA REARCHER EXPLOS MYTH: GAYS AREN’T ‘BORN THAT WAY’
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
* gay not born that way *
The study, which was based on an examatn of the geic material of almost half a ln dividuals, fively refut the ia that beg gay is an nate ndn that is ntrolled or largely pelled by one’s geic makp. Send, rebuttg s of wispread belief, the study tablished that “there is certaly no sgle geic termant (sometim referred to as the ‘gay gene’ the media)” that same-sex sexual behavr.
APA REARCHER EXPLOS MYTH: GAYS AREN’T ‘BORN THAT WAY’
The logic of the two rults—low herabily and high polygenicy—clearly monstrate that the domant cultural narrative about sexual orientatn—which se homosexual persons as a distctly bound blogil class of people who were “born that way”—simply nnot be te. In other words, gay people have a perfectly normal human genotype; they are not geilly distct om all other human begs any meangful sense.
” Other scientists volved the study, who are themselv gay, publicly opposed s publitn, voicg ncern that the fdgs would be “misnsted” to “advance agendas of hate.