Just wanted to mention some information that may upset both sides of the fence.
(1) Last time I discussed number of sexes with physical anthropologists, the answer was not two. There are at least, chromosome-wise and physically, half a dozen different sexes. Some are rare, some are not so rare.
(2) People making the "Born this way" argument tend to ignore the research that shows that other animals, when subjected to various cases of increased stress, demonstrate increasingly "gay" behaviors. This kind of research isn't done as much now since it is politically incorrect. The original studies I recall reading weren't about subjecting animals to stress to see if they behaved in a gay fashion. Rather, the same-sex mating increases were noted when animals were subjected to increased crowding and noise stress and other stressors. Are these results applicable to humans? That seems a reasonable question, and one that never gets asked.
There's no question that physico-chemical makeup, which is partly determined by genetics, has some effect on behavior. But assigning one's biological profile as the primary variable determinant of "gay" behaviors is quite a stretch and seems more political than scientific.
P.S. I've never understood, other than as a political ploy for leverage, why anyone would want to assert that he or she is gay by birth as opposed to gay by choice. Why is one more palatable than the other? If I were gay, I wouldn't want my biology blamed for my behavior. I'd rather thumb my nose at the straight world by choice.
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