'Gay gen': science is on the right track, we're born this way. Let’s al wh . | Qazi Rahman | The Guardian

Contents:

• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
• CAN A CHILD BE GAY OM BIRTH?
• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• TO HELP GAY SON, 61-YEAR-OLD WOMAN GIV BIRTH TO OWN GRANDCHILD
• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

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Other optns for gay upl clu adoptn and foster re. And for gay upl, surrogacy mak that dream a realy.

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CAN A CHILD BE GAY OM BIRTH?

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ARE WE BORN GAY?

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TO HELP GAY SON, 61-YEAR-OLD WOMAN GIV BIRTH TO OWN GRANDCHILD

Egg donatn and surrogacy allow two gay men to have children geilly related to one partner and the egg donor, but not to both. It’s been one of the tes of anti-gay activists for s: “Two men n’t have a blogil child, and two women n’t have one eher.

” For some anti-gay people, that seems to make the relatnships somehow wrong, as though any relatnship that n’t rult a child should somehow be forbidn. Anti-gay forc will not want to hear this news, but science will ntue to explore an attempt to expla blogy. Jt like straight upl, many gay men and lbians are eager to have a geic relatnship wh their children.

At tim, I’ve taken sperm om one gay man and matched wh the eggs of his partner’s sister to create a stronger geic bond between the uple and their child. Relig and nservative lears around the world still vehemently oppose same sex marriage and homosexual acts, let alone a gay uple havg a child of their own. Studi have shown this, and I have seen first hand the hundreds of gay fai om around the world who I’ve helped to nceive.

IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?

And has helped people—gay and straight, black and whe, Christian, Jews, and Buddhists—to bee parents. Read next: Italian Polician Looks to Highlight Gay Rights by Gettg Married Canada. 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.

When the qutn is posed whether some people are “born gay, ” the real qutn is, “Are some people oriented om birth toward homosexual attractns?

In the early 1990s, there was great hope some circl that a “gay gene” would be found that would prove homosexualy to be fixed and termed geilly. “There is no nsens among scientists about the exact reasons that an dividual velops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lbian orientatn. Studi of intil tws show that, when one tw is homosexual, the other (geilly intil) tw is ually not homosexual.

'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .

This disprov the ia of homosexualy as a fixed, geilly termed tra. For example, has been reported that men wh more olr brothers are more likely to be homosexual, and has been speculated that this uld relate to a blogil effect the mother’s womb.

Most rearchers prr to the 1970s believed, as many still do today, that homosexual attractns are primarily a velopmental rult of childhood experienc. Even some people who self-intify as gay are rejectg the ia that they were “born that way” — and the fensivens of the implied argument, “I’m only like this bee I n’t help . The “born gay” theory lacks scientific credibily, and — and polici premised on , such as the Equaly Act — should be abandoned.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

The uple planned to fd another surrogate to liver the child, but they found the procs nfg and weren’t pletely nfint about navigatg vro fertilizatn as gay men. Matthew Eledge, left, his mother, Cecile, and his hband, Ellt Dougherty, greet baby Uma last Panowicz / via AP“Nebraska is a b more nservative, and we were hant to go to agenci, and had a b of fear that maybe some thgs would hold back beg a gay uple, ” Matthew Eledge ’s when Cecile offered to be the uple’s gtatnal rrier. A clear geic lk would suggt that gay people are “born this way, ” as opposed to havg ma a liftyle choice.

Yet some fear that such a fdg uld be mised “cure” homosexualy, and most rearch teams have shied away om tacklg the topic. They asked more than 477, 000 participants whether they had ever had sex wh someone of the same sex, and also qutns about sexual fantasi and the gree to which they intified as gay or straight. Dpe the associatns, the thors say that the geic siari still nnot show whether a given dividual is gay.

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

“It’s the end of the ’gay gene, ’” says Eric Vila, a geicist at Children’s Natnal Health System Washgton, D. “A lot of people want to unrstand the blogy of homosexualy, and science has lagged behd that human tert, ” says William Rice, an evolutnary geicist at the Universy of California, Santa Barbara, who also was not volved the work.

CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?

The study will not be the last word on the vexg qutn of what homosexualy, however.

Natnal Cancer Instute and his lleagu published a paper suggtg that an area on the X chromosome lled Xq28 uld nta a “gay gene.

His study, which analysed the genom of 40 pairs of gay brothers, looked exclively at people who intified as homosexual.