What are the odds all three of my children are “queer”

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Anonymous wrote:Article from 2019:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/there-is-no-gay-gene-there-is-no-straight-gene-sexuality-is-just-complex-study-confirms

When the team looked more broadly across all the genomes — across the thousands of genes that they screened for the nearly 500,000 subjects — the genes similarities they found could only account for 8 to 25 percent of same-sex sexual behavior.

“It’s effectively impossible to predict an individual’s sexual behavior from their genome,” said Ben Neale, a geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute who led the study. “Genetics is less than half of this story for sexual behavior.”

I can’t find the study now but I remember another study that found a decently strong genetic component but only for males and only along the maternal line (X chromosome connected like hair loss). And it was correlated with females with a high rate of childbirth so the researches indicated it wasn’t so much a “gay gene” but more likely a “really likes sex with men” gene that expresses in females as sexually activity heterosexuality and in males as sexually active homosexuality. I thought that was really interesting and correlated with several gay male friends of mine that had gay male uncles in their mom’s side.
Female sexuality seems to me more complicated and much more of a sliding Kinsey scale that seems more heavily influenced by social norms, peer behavior, and environmental factors like negative interactions with males. But I don’t have any science for that one — just 50 years of observations!

I disagree that female sexuality is any more fluid than male sexuality. If you look at how many men in prison are “gay for the stay” you’ll see that many more men are bisexual than admit it publicly because it’s more socially acceptable for women to be bi.

Agreed! It’s more acceptable for women to be bi, so more are coming out. If it similarly becomes more acceptable for men to be bi, I’d wager the same would occur.

When people are accepted and free to be themselves, we realize that we are all so much more different. We adhere to social norms for safety and community; once sexuality isnt a part of that I think we’ll see a lot more people being their authentic selves.

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Anonymous wrote:Genetic component. You or DH are probably in denial.

LOL