Drugs that may prevent unborn babies becoming lesbian

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Mendicate Bias said:

Your both kind of right.

It is both genetics and environment that play a role. You will never see something as complex as sexual orientation be decided by a single factor. I'm going to really over simplify this but hopefully I'll get my point across.

There will be a very small number of people born with a genetic predisposition towards being attracted towards the same sex. This does not mean however that the child will be born automatically gay. When it comes to human behavior the only thing that genes can predict are how likely something is to occur, this is not chemistry where you can say A B=C. The environment where the child grows up in is what makes him more or less likely to go towards his/her genetic predisposition. For this reason any knowledgeable geneticist can tell you that we will never find a "gay" gene, because it does not exist. We may find a set of genes that make it more likely for someone to show gay behaviors but just by turning these genes off does not guarantee that you have created a straight individual. There is a reason that a much higher percentage of people raised by gay parents tend to become gay too. Sexual orientation is not a choice, but it can be influenced by your environment, an environment that extends from prenatal exposure to hormones to post birth social interactions.

I have a feeling I just confused people more but in summary your both right, sort of :/

Again, some gay people may repress their sexuality. I think gay parents generally create a pretty friendly environment where kids that are gay may not fel pressure to repress their sexuality. Still, you make an interesting point.