Are We Born Gay? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

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

Beg gay is not a choice for people. What we do know is that there isn’t one sgle gene that explas homosexualy.

ARE WE BORN GAY?

The most nvcg data about the geic basis of homosexualy om lookg at tws. Beg gay has a lot to do wh geics.

CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

So any “gay gen” should disappear.

Ergo, beg gay n’t be geic.