New study ‘explodes’ narrative that people are born ‘gay’
The findings of a recently published study explode the false narrative that being “gay” is an innate condition that is controlled or largely compelled by one's genetic makeup. Rebutting decades of search by LGBT scientists for a "gay gene," the study's first author flatly concludes "it will be basically impossible to predict one’s sexual activity or orientation just from genetics.” This is putting it gently. The study found that a person's developmental environment -- the influence of diet, family, friends, neighborhood, religion, and a host of other life conditions -- was twice as influential as genetics on the probability of adopting same-sex behavior or orientation, and that the genetic influence did not come from one or two strong sources but from dozens of genetic variants that each added a small increased propensity for same-sex behavior. A genetic arrangement based on a large number of markers across the genome means that virtually ...