Left-hand boys more likely to be gay, say scientists

Contents:

• BOYS WHO ARE LEFT HAND AND HAVE LOTS OF BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, REARCH FDS
• RIGHT HAND OR LEFT HAND? THIS EXPLAS WHY YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY
• IT’S SO GAY TO BE LEFT-HAND
• LEFT-HAND BOYS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, SAY SCIENTISTS
• GAYS MORE OFTEN LEFT-HAND: STUDY

BOYS WHO ARE LEFT HAND AND HAVE LOTS OF BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, REARCH FDS

of Toronto's Center for Addictn and Mental Health, homosexuals. rrelatn between left-handns and homosexualy. straight women, while gay men are 34 percent more likely than straight men to.

evince that lks homosexualy to left-handns, he also adds that. differenc between homosexuals and heterosexuals and is both gay and. the fact that most homosexuals are right-hand, and most left-hand.

RIGHT HAND OR LEFT HAND? THIS EXPLAS WHY YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY

The Canadian rearchers suggt that beg left-hand is one of the factors Gay men are around 34% more likely to be left-hand than heterosexual men Havg one or more olr brothers creas the likelihood of beg gay by 14.

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IT’S SO GAY TO BE LEFT-HAND

Scientists claims to have unvered the three major factors that make a boy more likely to be rearchers suggt beg left-hand, havg several olr brothers and havg other gay people the fay are all signifint men are around 34 per cent more likely to be left-hand than heterosexual men, the team one or more olr male brothers, known as the ‘aternal birth orr effect’ creas the likelihood of beg gay by around 14.

8 per gay members the fay - on eher the mother’s or father’s si - creased the likelihood of beg gay, but was largely separate to the other factors, the rearchers down for vio Scientists claims to have unvered the three major factors that make a boy more likely to be gay.

The rearchers suggt beg left-hand, havg several olr brothers and havg other gay people the fay are all signifint markersBut the factors do not add together, the thors other words, beg left-hand and havg several olr brothers did not add together to make more likely that someone is evince of this, gay men who had several olr brothers were ‘primarily’ right-hand, the thors om the Universy of Toronto rearch was based on a study of more than 800 gay largt, ‘sub group’ of men the survey, prisg 63 per cent, did not have any of the three ‘markers’ - and were very siar their profil to straight different sub-groups of gay men also had different psychologil example, the rearchers found that the gay men wh none of the three ‘markers’ were the most likely to be means actg a way typil of a man, rather than actg like a typil woman, for example workg more typilly ‘male’ jobs such as a garage mechanic or firefighter. However, gay men wh many olr brothers were more likely to have jobs most typilly rried out by women.

LEFT-HAND BOYS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, SAY SCIENTISTS

The rearchers suggt beg left-hand, havg several olr brothers and havg other gay people the fay are all signifint markers. Gay men are around 34 per cent more likely to be left-hand than heterosexual men, the team saidWrg the journal PNAS, the thors wre ‘We prent evince that non-heterosexual men n be tegorized to at least four subgroups’.

Explag why mal bee gay bee they have several olr brothers, the thors say that is thought that every time a woman giv birth to a male boy, triggers an immune rponse the mother’s immune rponse creas wh each boy born, and this affects bra velopment subsequent boys, cludg that of the boy’s future sexual is a tra more mon men than women: men are 20 per cent more likely to be left hand than women. The of handns are not yet known, but is thought to be lked to geic, immunologil, and hormonal factors which affect the velopg bra, the rearchers gay is known to be likely to be hered - wh geics nsired to acunt for around 32 per cent of whether someone is gay or not.

GAYS MORE OFTEN LEFT-HAND: STUDY

Boys who are left hand and have lots of brothers more likely to be gay, rearch fds. Left-handns homosexual men and women: nroendocre implitns. Although numero rearchers have hypothized a blogil factor the etlogy of homosexualy, there is a lack of empiril evince.

Usg nropsychologil ttg, we found an creased cince of left-hand preference (fed as non-nsistent right-hand preference) a group of 32 homosexual women. A trend the same directn was found a group of 38 homosexual men.

The rults suggt that homosexual orientatn has a nroblogil ponent possibly related to hemispheric functnal asymmetry. The rults are nsistent wh prev reports that (1) prenatal nroendocre events are a factor the velopment of human sexual orientatn and functnal bra asymmetri, and (2) the mechanisms associated wh homosexual orientatn and related nropsychologil characteristics are different between the sex, i.