Gay sheep? Let's get the facts straight | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
• GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
• U.S. STUDY OF GAY SHEEP MAY SHED LIGHT ON SEXUALY

HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference.

But gay rams s size was almost intil to that “straight” femal.

GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT

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. As many as one 10 rams n be gay.

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. Science told: hands off gay sheep.

U.S. STUDY OF GAY SHEEP MAY SHED LIGHT ON SEXUALY

Apparently Profsor Charl Roselli is nductg gome experiments on sheep the name of eraditg homosexualy.

"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.