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Dee said:To me, this is fact. Yes, you are born gay. You just don't come into your sexuality until you are of that age where sex is something you begin to notice. To tell someone they made a conscious choice to become gay is silly. That's like telling someone they made a conscious choice to become straight. You don't decide these things. You just are what you are.
Jazzy said:Homosexuality is the desire for someone of the same gender as you. It is scientifically impossible for 2 men or 2 women to have a child together. If people with a "gay gene" were born gay they would not have sex (meaning that they couldn't have kids). Thus, if there was a gene for gayness, it would not be passed on. The gene, if it ever existed, would have died out after the first generation. If gayness is a recessive trait, then its increase in the general population would be illogical (real recessive traits like blue eyes have become less common in America over the years).
Furthermore if you were born either gay or straight, how could bisexuals be explained?
If people were born gay, then both two of a set of identical twins would be gay. How come there are identical twins where only one is gay?
The answer is that homosexuality is not genetic.
Dee said:Homosexuality is a genetic, natural outcome. It is not a choice.
Jazzy said:Dee said:Homosexuality is a genetic, natural outcome. It is not a choice.
If people were born gay, then both two of a set of identical twins would be gay. How come only one can turn out gay and the other turn out straight?
Dee said:Jazzy said:Dee said:Homosexuality is a genetic, natural outcome. It is not a choice.
If people were born gay, then both two of a set of identical twins would be gay. How come only one can turn out gay and the other turn out straight?
There are countless number of studies that have come out that don't actually prove anything. Much of what the professionals seem to agree on is that they don't know why this is the case. Genetics may play a factor, but it may just be a small one. It could be hormones introduced into a certain phase, or it also couldn't be. However, I am not a scientist and therefore I can't tell you why this is the case.
~KAGE-008 said:Depends but I don't think anyone can be gay right after their birth. And I agree with Jazzy on this one, only when the person is mature enough to think about his/her sexual orientation is where he/she might make that decision.