Vivek Ramaswamy repeats the leftist lie that homosexuality is ‘hardwired’ from birth
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Except... it is. It seems to be an epigenetic expression caused by the timing of hormone exposure in utero. This expression affects the development of certain brain structures. Those brain structures are similar in gay men vs straight women, as well as in straight men vs gay women.
Behavior is a choice. Sexual orientation is not.
If you're willing to open your mind, this fellow does a roundup of the neuroscience: https://youtu.be/QCX2PJJ-2BA
I am anecdotal evidence of this. I tried to "pray the gay away" for two decades, including voluntary celibacy. It didn't work. It wasn't until I'd developed my relationship with God sufficiently that we could converse that he told me to accept who I am, find someone to commit to, and be a good person. I'm working on the "good person" part, but being gay doesn't factor into it.
Ok but what about the strong correlation between abuse victims and homosexuality.
I'm not saying this doesn't happen, I think hormones are a huge part of it, but it's not entirely the case.
There's a difference between someone who is born with specific brain wiring and someone who is trying to process trauma.
Some boys who are abused grow up to be men who seek to be dominated sexually by other men. This is the psyche's attempt to process the trauma by "returning to the scene of the crime." These men hate that they have this compulsion, but they don't understand what to do about it. They might call themselves gay in order to justify it, but they want neither intimacy nor relationship with the men who dominate them.
But these are not gay men; they are straight men who need understanding and a good therapist.
Do you have other siblings and are you among the youngest? I've heard there's a disproportionate amount of gay people with many older siblings. It's like something physiologically changes in the mom after many kids. This is something I read about years ago. Maybe it's all bunk.
Yeah, statistically a boy is 33% more likely to be gay for each older brother his mother has borne. The theory is that the mother develops antibodies in response to carrying a boy, and those antibodies kick in and increase cortisol production in subsequent male pregnancies. The cortisol impacts fetal development.
Another clear statistical signal is if a mother's life is very stressful during gestation. (Again, cortisol. IIRC, ~4% of straight men report this, over 25% of gay men report this.) That theory fits me better.
It's like nature is saying either "I'm in trouble and need a resource provider if my genes are to be passed on" or "Ok, we have enough mouths to feed, time to make more resource providers so that the next generation can survive."