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.
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."