Confsns of a gay sheep
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
- FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?
- GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
- OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND BAD PUBLICY
- YEP, THEY'RE GAY
- U.S. STUDY OF GAY SHEEP MAY SHED LIGHT ON SEXUALY
- GAY SHEEP, FORBIDN SCIENCE?
- OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND THE PERILS OF BAD PUBLICY - HEALTH & SCIENCE - INTERNATNAL HERALD TRIBUNE
- ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)
- THE GAY SHEEP AND SOUND SCIENCE (1 LETTER)
- IT’S GAY RIGHTS, NOT GAY GEN, THAT MATTER
- GAY SHEEP SHOULD LOOK TO J, NOT SCIENCE FOR CURE
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
Gay rams show distct bra differenc - a ntroversial study of gay men found almost intil distctns * gay sheep article *
A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference. The differenc are almost intil to those intified by the nroscientist Simon LeVay his studi of the bras of gay men.
Sheep are particularly tertg, he says, bee bis humans, they are the only animal where the mal may naturally exprs exclively gay sexual preferenc. But Lark suggts there may also be the fluence of gen at work, at least predisposg the animals to homosexualy.
This is bee selective breedg seems to have been rponsible for the high proportn of gay sheep pared wh other animals.
FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?
The story of the gay sheep is an example of the distortn that n rult when science meets the global news cycle. * gay sheep article *
“Unfortunately, he’ll have to go to the food cha, ” said Dewi Jon, the chief executive of the sheep-breedg pany Innovis, speakg on a Channel 4 documentary, My Gay Dog and Other Animals, which will be broadst on Thursday.
Campaigners raised money to send him to a sanctuary stead (although emerged the followg year that he may not be “gay” after all, “judgg by what he was tryg to do the other day wh one of the ws, ” said his new owner) preferenc sheep have been studied by Charl Roselli, a profsor of physlogy and pharmalogy at the Oregon Health & Science Universy, whose work suggts their sexualy is termed by blogy and has said that the rearch – prevly reported by the webse Slate unr the headle “Brokeback Mutton” – may “allow better selectn of rams for breedg and as a nsequence may be enomilly important to the sheep dtry”. Apparently Profsor Charl Roselli is nductg gome experiments on sheep the name of eraditg homosexualy.
GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
* gay sheep article *
"By varyg the hormone levels, " ntu, "maly by jectg hormon to the bra, they have had 'nsirable succs' alterg the rams' sexualy, wh some prevly gay animals beg attracted to ew. The only siar work pleted and published by them was about tryg to make "straight" animals "gay" (they avoid those terms) and any se, that experiment was negative: failed to achieve this aim. " most bizarre is the suggtn that the rearch was somehow ultimately about makg gay people straight.
The assertn is at the top of the article: "Scientists are nductg experiments to change the sexualy of 'gay' sheep a programme that crics fear uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans.
Even if you uld tervene to make a gay human straight, you might reasonably expect this to make any hered tenncy towards homosexualy more prevalent, not all the misrmatn and misunrstandgs this ST piece appeared first a Peta (People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals) mpaign. But sce last fall, when People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals started a mpaign agast the rearch, has drawn a torrent of outrage om animal rights activists, gay advot and ordary cizens around the world — all of based, Dr. The story of the gay sheep beme a textbook example of the distortn and vuperatn that n rult when science meets the global news cycle.
OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND BAD PUBLICY
A study of homosexual sheep has raised the ire of everyone om gay activists to PETA. John Cloud wonrs why " name="scriptn * gay sheep article *
The news media storm reached s zenh last month, when The Sunday Tim London published an article unr the headle “Science Told: Hands Off Gay Sheep.
YEP, THEY'RE GAY
Sometim you e across a topic too big for the space you're wrg . This is one of those tim. The topic is rearch on gay sheep and what ... * gay sheep article *
Roselli had worked succsfully to “cure” homosexual rams wh hormone treatments, and add that “crics fear” that the rearch “uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans.
U.S. STUDY OF GAY SHEEP MAY SHED LIGHT ON SEXUALY
Gay sheep, forbidn science? * gay sheep article *
”Marta Navratilova, the tennis star who is both openly gay and a PETA ally, wrote an open letter that the rearch “n only be surmised as an attempt to velop a prenatal treatment” for sexual ntroversy spilled to the blog world, wh attacks on Dr.
GAY SHEEP, FORBIDN SCIENCE?
The “gay sheep” rearch on rams om the U.S. Sheep Experiment Statn Idaho set off a firtorm of ntroversy. In an effort to unrstand what homosexualy rams (which hibs breedg), scientists sought to produce artificially same-sex preference behavr male sheep. If they uld figure out how to make sheep gay, perhaps they uld figure out how to make them straight. * gay sheep article *
Gala, who asked that he be intified as openly gay, ced the news release for a 2004 paper the journal Endocrology that showed differenc bra stcture between homosexual and heterosexual sheep. ” The prospect of parents’ eventually beg able to choose not to have children who would bee gay is a real ncern for the future, Dr.
OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND THE PERILS OF BAD PUBLICY - HEALTH & SCIENCE - INTERNATNAL HERALD TRIBUNE
One out of every 10 rams is gay. That’s right. Every time you see 10 rams, you n rt… One out of every 10 rams is gay. That’s right. Every time you see 10 rams, you n rt assured that at least one of them prefers rams over ew. Common knowledge, I know, but ... * gay sheep article *
But he add, “This ncern is bt addrsed by tryg to change public perceptns of homosexualy rather than stop basic science on sexualy. Although I’m nflicted about llg myself a gay sheep, bee I don’t like to thk that my sexualy f me; let’s jt say that I’m a sheep who happens to be gay. Beg gay is jt a simple blogil fact, like havg a fleecy unrat or bleatg while you’re beg shorn, or gettg aroed whenever you see a bulky turtleneck I was growg up, I assumed that I’d be jt like everybody else, and that someday I’d be bred wh a ewe and slghtered.
I had some terrific long talks wh a wise old mounta goat, who told me, “Look, you n be anythg you want to be—gay, straight, pashma, whatever. And at the Last Supper there was long last, I found the strength to e out to my fay, my iends, and even my -workers, to say right out loud, I’m Troy and I’m gay, but I hope that isn’t the most tertg thg about me.
) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhib homosexualy at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclively wh other rams. This ltle piece of fnal ephemera might otherwise have gone unnoticed outsi the rarely tersectg subcultur of gays and shepherds. The sheep rearchers—Charl Roselli of Oregon Health and Science Universy and Fred Stormshak of Oregon State Universy—are vtigatg blogil factors homosexualy.
ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay sheep article *
In fact, he has said that studi suggtg a blogil basis for homosexualy tend to enurage tolerance.
He do this not to promote homosexualy but to fd out whether the mechanism he’s ttg—privatn of trogen durg fetal velopment—acunts for homosexualy. PETA has ma hay of a 2000 paper which Stormshak posed that gay rams “may not be exposed to the same levels” of trogen as straight rams.
THE GAY SHEEP AND SOUND SCIENCE (1 LETTER)
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * gay sheep article *
” And that’s what the study exam: All the rams, not jt the gay on, are strated and given trogen. For stance, most people who regard homosexualy as a s assume you n regulate your sexual orientatn. What if science mak possible to chemilly rce the prevalence of homosexualy whout opprsg anyone?
IT’S GAY RIGHTS, NOT GAY GEN, THAT MATTER
Lookg back at the wretched history of hormone therapy for homosexualy, ’s easy to say, “Never aga. If you don’t regard the human fet as a person—precisely bee s bra hasn’t fully formed—n you really say was ever gay?
GAY SHEEP SHOULD LOOK TO J, NOT SCIENCE FOR CURE
You might fd yourself the odd posn of pleadg for acceptance of homosexualy as a natural ndn while at the same time nouncg Catholic bishops who plead for acceptance of fertily as a natural ndn.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
But if doctors learn to spot emergg gay bras and are unable to alter them, parents who are termed not to raise gay children will do what’s already done to female fet much of the world: abort them.
Science told: hands off gay sheepIsabel Oakhott and Chris GourlayExperiments that claim to ‘cure’ homosexual rams spark anger SCIENTISTS are nductg experiments to change the sexualy of “gay” sheep a programme that crics fear uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans. The technique beg veloped by Amerin rearchers adjts the hormonal balance the bras of homosexual rams so that they are more cled to mate wh ew.