njlauren
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There is no conclusive proof about what causes someone to be gay (or straight), or for that matter gender identity, but almost everyone has come to the conclusion a lot of it is pre natal. The idea that nurturing can turn someone gay, the whole strong mother crap, is just that, and no therapy has ever been shown to fundamentally change someone's orientation, whether it is sexual or gender identity. I think things in someone's environment could cause someone in the middle to go one way or the other (for example, a woman who is straight suddenly finds a same sex attraction), but there already were pieces in place. Here are some of what evidence there is:
-If a kid is gay, the odds that a sibling will be gay is about 25% higher than statistical norms for kids of all sorts.
-If there are fraternal twins, and one is gay the odds the other one will be gay is about 40% higher.
-If they are identical twins, it is about 60%.
The fact that the last is not 100% indicates other factors are at work as well, but also indicates a strong genetic component.
What experiments with pre natal development in mamals has shown is that things like gender identity and sexual orientation seem to develop pre natally based on hormonal washes that happen at specific times. Remember, all fetus's are female until several months in, until cycles of hormones change things. In the experiments with mammals, when they interrupt or change the hormone baths, the offspring show changed behavior, female mice show aggressive, male like behavior, while male mice can end up acting like female mice. Though not totally conclusive, the brains of gay men and women are different structurally than straight men and women, and studies of m to f transgender women's brains post death show brain development similar to genetic females.....
I suspect it is a combination of genetics and the pre natal environment that does it, what I don't believe is that how parents raise a kid will change those behaviors. There is a famous case where parents, on the advice of doctors, raised a genetically male child as a girl, because the kids penis was mangled in some surgery they were doing. They had a team of experts working with them to socialize the child as a girl, at puberty they gave the child hormones, continuous therapy, you name it..and the kid was miserable, and as an adult finally transitioned into living as a man, he never felt like a girl, never felt right, despite everything they tried (the fucking expert who did that should have been on trial at the world court for crimes against humanity for what he did, the arrogant bastard)....
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