“I do not believe people, when they are born, choose their sexualy. They are gay if they are born gay.” - Prime Mister Kev Rudd, ABC TV’s Q&A, 2 September. Rpondg to a qutn om dience…
Contents:
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
- ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
- WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
ARE WE BORN GAY?
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * are gay people born *
Will our child grow up to be gay or straight? ) and adult homosexualy.
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
Scientists have unvered the strongt evince yet the bate of whether people are 'born gay'. * are gay people born *
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But there were a signifint number of genr-nformg men who, nohels, veloped a gay or bisexual inty adulthood. Maybe we n agree that the image evoked by "born gay"—that ltle girl neonate appearg wearg overalls and graspg a toy tck—do not help thk through qutns of sexual sire and inty.
It’s not pletely known why someone might be lbian, gay, straight, or bisexual. You also n’t “turn” a person gay.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
The theory that people are "born gay" has been ed to argue that sexual orientatn is siar to race - that "gay is the new black." Based largely on this premise, the proposed "Equaly Act," which is currently unr nsiratn Congrs, would treat sexual orientatn exactly like race unr feral civil rights laws. But is te that sexual orientatn is termed at (or before) birth? * are gay people born *
For example, exposg a boy to toys tradnally ma for girls, such as dolls, won’t e him to be gay.
Many people say that they knew they were lbian, gay, or bisexual even before puberty. ” 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.
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.
IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
In a recent Guardian article, Simon Copland argued that is very unlikely people are born gay (or prumably any other sexual orientatn). Fdg evince for a blogil basis should not sre or unrme gay, lbian and bisexual (LGB) rights (the studi I refer to do not clu transgenred dividuals, so I’ll nfe my ments to lbian, gay and bisexual people). Evince om pennt rearch groups who studied tws shows that geic factors expla about 25-30% of the differenc between people sexual orientatn (heterosexual, gay, lbian, and bisexual).
Tw studi are a first look to the geics of a tra and tell that there are such thgs as “gen for sexual orientatn” (I hate the phrase “gay gene”). Three gene fdg studi showed that gay brothers share geic markers on the X chromosome; the most recent study also found shared markers on chromosome 8. For example, plex psychologil tras have many al gen (not simply “a gay gene”).
Perhaps this is due to the stereotype that female sexualy is “too plex” or that lbians are rarer than gay are far om the whole story. Gen uld themselv nudge one towards a particular sexual orientatn or gen may simply teract wh other environmental factors (such as sex hormon the womb environment) to fluence later sexual bras of gay and heterosexual people also appear to be anised differently. For example patterns of bra anisatn appear siar between gay men and heterosexual women and between lbian women and heterosexual men.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Gay men appear, on average, more “female typil” bra pattern rpons and lbian women are somewhat more “male typil”. Differenc bra anisatn mean differenc psychology and study after study show differenc gnn between heterosexual and gay people. Th gay differenc are not jt about who you fancy.
The fluence of blogy ns throughout our sexual and genred liv and those differenc, that diversy, is surely to be wrers tend to wave off the scientific evince by urgg to look to the history of sexualy or claim that homosexualy is a social nstctn (cue Michel Fouult and the like). We fall love wh men or women bee we have gay, straight, or bisexual orientatns and not bee of choice.
Surely our choic are the rult of thgs we didn’t choose (our gen, personali, upbrgg, and culture) worry that scientific rearch will lead to “cur” for homosexualy (which is an odd worry to have if you don’t believe the “born this way” argument).
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
We are who we are, and our sexuali are part of human worry about the claims of social nstctn, choice and such like is that plays to the hands of homophobic iology, to the hands of the “aversn therapists”, and to the hands of a growg culture which seeks to mimise gay differenc. He studi the blogy of sexual orientatn and the implitns for mental health and is the -thor of Born Gay?
Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic?
The simplt answer is to look at the fn of the word "gay. " The term gay is a synonym for homosexual, which is fed as, 1, 2. In other words, 5-10% of people experience same-sex sexual attractn or behavr; of urse, this don't speak to what mak people gay.
ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
No one knows for certa why any dividual is gay, but the current thought is that beg gay is not a choice. (read: Cure the Gay: Gay Conversn Therapy – Real or Hoax?
) The reasons people are gay are both physlogil and psychologil. Why Are People Gay?
Morn science is workg to show that geics is one of the of beg gay, although some science nflicts this area. "In recent years, evince has accumulated that a homosexual orientatn is hered.
WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
Study of fay history reveals that homosexual men have more homosexuals their fay tree than do heterosexuals.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
The precise gen volved the of beg gay have not yet been intified but they appear to e om the mother. Addnally, some studi have found that the bras om homosexuals differ om the bras of heterosexuals.