“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?
- 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
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
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 you born gay or made gay *
Will our child grow up to be gay or straight?
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IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
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 you born gay or made gay *
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THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Scientists have unvered the strongt evince yet the bate of whether people are 'born gay'. * are you born gay or made gay *
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. Beg gay has a lot to do wh geics.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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?
ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
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. 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.