It has been solidly established that there is a strong biological component to sexual orientation. The assumption is that it is genetic, because it has all of the characteristics of a genetic trait, but the specific gene or genes have not yet been isolated. There is one school of thought that maintains that geneticists have been looking in the wrong place, and that the mother carries the gene(s) and this effects the timing of the release of hormones when the individual is in utero, and this determines the gender orientation of said individual.

Because the specific gene or genes has not yet been found does not mean that gender orientation is not genetic.

There are actual, measurable differences in the hypothalamus of gay and straight people. ONE of a NUMBER of factors that indicate a physiological basis for gender orientation (beyond the obvious, of course).

Sorry Ake and Michael, but those are the facts. And I can link to dozens of articles by recognized authorities in the fields of genetics, physiology, brain-science, and psychology that support what I have just written.

Why don't you two guys get a room together? Or—would that be too scary for you two?

Don Firth