Why Are People Gay? Gay By Choice or Is Beg Gay Geic? | HealthyPlace

Contents:

• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
• CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

ARE WE BORN GAY?

Will our child grow up to be gay or straight? ) and adult homosexualy.

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

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” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other. LGBTQ stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer/Qutng.

IS ANYONE BORN GAY?

Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual). Some people may engage same genr sexual behavr but not intify themselv as bisexual, lbian, or gay.

5% intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

Beg gay is not a choice for people. What we do know is that there isn’t one sgle gene that explas homosexualy. The most nvcg data about the geic basis of homosexualy om lookg at tws.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?

Beg gay has a lot to do wh geics. Some of the bt evince that homosexualy has a strong geic part om tw studi. Tw studi of homosexualy have shown that intil tws are about twice as likely to both be gay pared to aternal tws.

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

This means that beg gay is partly geic, and not simply somethg that a person learns or choos. If the DNA sequence were the only thg termg whether someone is gay or not, we would expect intil tws to match 100% of the time. If one tw is gay, the other is gay about 50% of the time as well.

What other factors might fluence whether someone is gay?

When lookg at large fai, scientists saw that men wh lots of olr brothers were more likely to be gay. Men wh lots of olr brothers are more likely to be gay. Of urse, this isn’t the only environmental explanatn for how people are born gay – there are plenty of men wh olr brothers who are not gay.

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

And there are plenty of gay men wh no olr brothers!

Even though the evince is pretty strong for homosexualy beg partly geic, some people don’t accept . The argument monly go: If gay men and women are ls likely to have babi, they won’t pass on their gen. So any “gay gen” should disappear.

CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?

Ergo, beg gay n’t be geic.

One possible explanatn is that the same gen that make a man gay n also make a woman more fertile.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

The looked at the female relativ of gay men, both on the mother’s and father’s si. This uld mean that there are some gen that are passed down om the mother’s si that make women more fertile and make men more likely to be gay.