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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are substituting correlation with causation.

My husband and I are 40. We both can't remember any kid in our high school class who was gay, much less bi or trans. (We do know from Facebook that some of those kids did turn out to be gay, bi, and even one person was trans and now lives as a woman.) In contrast, DH's little sister is 17 years younger. When she was in high school, many kids were out and lots more were experimenting, even if they ultimately were heterosexual. It's not fertility drugs that changed kids. It's the culture of acceptance for sexual and gender identity that has changed and kids are reacting to it by being open about their feelings. 
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I am not substituting causation for correlation. I am noticing correlation and asking about causation. You are also noticing correlation, and attributing causation. Where is what you have posited proved? Its a nice hypothesis, and I am offering another hypothesis.Isn't it possible that if your only child is gay, and you are too old to have another one, you would be much more likely to be accepting and supportive.
You and the sister fit in perfectly to the age demographic. [b]In 1975 hardly anyone was taking fertility drugs- the first "test tube" baby was barely born. [/b]
By the 1990s there were fertility clinics everywhere.
I am for acceptance.  That isn't the issue here.[/quote]

This is kind of OT but fertility drugs & test tube babies are not one in the same.  The first test tube baby was born in 1978 but my mom used fertility drugs to conceive my sister in 1974. [/quote]
That was probably Clomid which has been in use since the early '60s. Clomid tricks the pituitary gland into over-stimulating the ovaries to produce more eggs. It is not a hormone. By the time conception occurs, the drug has left the system.[/quote]

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