The largt study of s kd found new evince that gen ntribute to same-sex sexual behavr, but echo rearch that says there are no specific gen that make people gay.
Contents:
- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
- IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- SEARCH FOR 'GAY GEN' COM UP SHORT IN LARGE NEW STUDY
- IS THERE A “GAY GENE"?
- WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- NEW THEORY: THE GAY TRA IS PASSED DOWN FROM PARENT TO CHILD
- WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
- THE REAL STORY ON GAY GEN
- A 'GAY GENE'? IT'S PLITED, ACRDG TO NEW REARCH ON SAME-SEX BEHAVR
- IS THE “GAY GENE” REAL?
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
New rearch shows the gen that make men gay appear to make their mothers and nts more reproductively succsful. * gay genes *
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). 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.
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). 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). 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.
IS BEG GAY GEIC?
An immune rponse some pregnant women’s bodi may expla the “aternal birth orr effect” – that men are more likely to be gay the more olr brothers they have * gay genes *
The logic of the two rults—low herabily and high polygenicy—clearly monstrate that the domant cultural narrative about sexual orientatn—which se homosexual persons as a distctly bound blogil class of people who were “born that way”—simply nnot be te.
” The termist logic of this cisn has empowered those who formerly advoted that homosexual persons may marry someone of the same sex to now advote that, if they marry, homosexual persons mt marry someone of the same sex.
SEARCH FOR 'GAY GEN' COM UP SHORT IN LARGE NEW STUDY
Numero legislative and judicial efforts are currently unrway to outlaw voluntary therapy or to ny the legimacy of adults who experience some level of same-sex attractn but choose not to engage same-sex relatns or intify themselv as gay or lbian, on the grounds that such actns ny their immutable nature.
IS THERE A “GAY GENE"?
Yet many now seek to ny the same people the eedom to cle to intify as gay and to marry someone of the oppose sex, if they so choose, on the premise that they would thereby be dog vlence to who they “really” are. Followg Polrman’s study, a team of proment sexualy rearchers terpreted the replited low level of herabily to suggt that, while ternal sexual attractn may not be socially malleable, the adoptn of a sexual inty unnstraed by ternal attractn—homosexual, heterosexual, or somethg else—is well wh the range of velopment for most people.
WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
” The kds of choic and therapy to support them, they note, are most mon among the religly observant, and “likely expla claims by ex-gays and ex-lbians that they are no longer leadg a ‘homosexual liftyle. On the General Social Survey (a biennial statistil profile of the US populatn fund by the Natnal Science Foundatn), 57 percent of people who intify as gay (40 percent of gay men and 78 percent of lbian women) report havg had one or more oppose-sex sex partners sce age eighteen.
In 100, 300 terviews that asked about sexual orientatn on the 2013-2015 Natnal Health Interview Survey, 13 percent of currently partnered gay persons reported beg an oppose-sex, not same-sex, sexual partnership. As the studi have both found, most persons wh a genotype parable to that of gay or lbian persons end up, for var reasons of social environment or velopment or personal prciple, not engagg same-sex relatns.
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
If ever did make sense on the premise that gay persons were geilly termed, the absence of a pellg geic difference, is impossible reasonably to mata that tolerance of homosexual behavr requir tolerance of heterosexual behavr.
NEW THEORY: THE GAY TRA IS PASSED DOWN FROM PARENT TO CHILD
And bee the rearchers didn't fd gene variants that rrelated wh a gradient of sexual behavr, she says, unrcuts Aled Ksey's s-old sle, which ranked people on a spectm of sexualy, om exclively heterosexual to exclively homosexual. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.
WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
This topic has long been a ntroversial area, wh some believg the existence of a “gay gene” that ultimately term orientatn and preferenc, while others assure that the tra is purely termed by surroundgs and environment. In other words, this pattern of rults would appear to place gay men at the two extrem of the “mascule” sle, wh heterosexual mal occupyg the middle ground, “bottoms” at the lower end, and “tops” at the higher end.
But nsirg that the tra disurag the type of sex that leads to procreatn — that is, sex wh women — and would therefore seem to thwart s own chanc of beg geilly passed on to the next generatn, why are there gay men at all?
THE REAL STORY ON GAY GEN
For several years, studi led by Andrea Camper Ciani at the Universy of Padova Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal nts of gay men tend to have signifintly more offsprg than the maternal relativ of straight men.
A 'GAY GENE'? IT'S PLITED, ACRDG TO NEW REARCH ON SAME-SEX BEHAVR
The rults show strong support for the "balancg selectn hypothis, " which is fast beg the accepted theory of the geic basis of male theory holds that the same geic factors that duce gayns mal also promote fecundy (high reproductive succs) those mal' female maternal relativ. Through this tra-off, the maternal relativ' "gay man gen, " though they aren't exprsed as such, tend to get passed to future generatns spe of their tenncy to make their male herors no one knows which gen, exactly, the might be, at least one of them appears to be loted on the X chromosome, acrdg to geic molg by Camper Ciani and his lleagu. Mal her only one X chromosome — the one om their mother — and if clus the gene that promot gayns mal and fecundy femal, he is likely to be gay while his mom and her female relativ are likely to have lots of kids.
IS THE “GAY GENE” REAL?
Prevly, the Italian rearchers suggted that the "gay man gene" might simply crease androphilia, or attractn to men, thereby makg the mal who posss the gene homosexual and the femal who posss more promiscuo.
The androphilic pattern that we found is about femal who crease their reproductive value to attract the bt mal, " Camper Ciani told Life's Ltle out, the moms and nts of gay men have an advantage over the moms and nts of straight men for several reasons: They are more fertile, displayg fewer gynelogil disorrs or plitns durg pregnancy; they are more extroverted, as well as funnier, happier and more relaxed; and they have fewer fay problems and social anxieti.