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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:34 AM
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Sexual identity hard wired by genetics
Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 11:37 AM by Mari333
ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Sexual identity is wired into the genes, which discounts the concept that homosexuality and transgender sexuality are a choice, California researchers reported on Monday.

"Our findings may help answer an important question -- why do we feel male or female?" Dr. Eric Vilain, a genetics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, said in a statement. "Sexual identity is rooted in every person's biology before birth and springs from a variation in our individual genome."




http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/10/20/sexuality.brain.reut/index.html

BOY will this throw the homophobes arguments into the crapper!
(oh wait, they dont believe in science..never mind...)
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:38 AM
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1. Dupe.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:40 AM
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2. Darn! And I was hoping to start living that flamboyant gay lifestyle!
Guess I'll have to withdraw that offer on the house in West Hollywood.

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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:56 AM
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3. I'm Hoping It Will Ease My Dad's "Guilt" Of Being A "Bad Parent"...
... he's still torn between believing that I'm making a conscious decision to be perverted and that he was a bad father who wasn't involved enough and who allowed my mother to coddle me too much.

Sigh.

-- Allen

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