Is there a 'gay gene'? The problem wh new studi nnectg geics and LGBTQ inty
Contents:
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A TOTAL MYTH, MASSIVE STUDY CONCLUS
- BORN THIS WAY? SOCIETY, SEXUALY AND THE SEARCH FOR THE 'GAY GENE'
- IS THERE A 'GAY GENE'? THE PROBLEM WH STUDI NNECTG GEICS AND LGBTQ INTY
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
** In the 1990s, certa rearchers thought they had disvered a geic mutatn that ed homosexualy some ia of a "gay gene" has been around for s, but has never been proven.
In the 1990s, a study by Dean Hamer suggted that a gene on the X chromosome might be lked to homosexualy men. However, subsequent studi have failed to replite the fdgs, and is now wily accepted that there is no sgle "gay gene. However, environmental factors, such as upbrgg and culture, also play a ia of a "gay gene" is often ed to stigmatize and discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A TOTAL MYTH, MASSIVE STUDY CONCLUS
There is nothg wrong wh beg gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr.
There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian. The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene.
In s stead, the report fds that human DNA nnot predict who is gay or heterosexual.
BORN THIS WAY? SOCIETY, SEXUALY AND THE SEARCH FOR THE 'GAY GENE'
It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty. Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai.
IS THERE A 'GAY GENE'? THE PROBLEM WH STUDI NNECTG GEICS AND LGBTQ INTY
“As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother.